Definitions | inapposite |
| adjective
- inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
- :This remark, so ludicrously to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;
Etymology: negative in- + apposite
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