Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not meant or adapted for a given purpose; inappropriate.
- adjective Below the required standard; unqualified.
- adjective Not in good physical or mental health.
- adjective Biology Unable to survive or produce viable offspring in a particular environment.
- transitive verb To cause to be unsuited or unqualified.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make unsuitable; deprive of the proper or necessary qualifications for some act, activity, use, or purpose.
- Not fit.
- Not suited or adapted; not fitted.
- Wanting suitable qualifications, physical or moral; not competent; unable: said of persons.
- Synonyms Inapt. See
apt . - Unqualified, unmeet, unworthy, incompetent, insufficient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify
- adjective Not fit; unsuitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
fit ; not having thecorrect requirements . - adjective Not
fit , not having a good physical demeanor. - verb To make unfit; to render unsuitable,
spoil ,disqualify .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective below the required standards for a purpose
- adjective not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition
- adjective physically unsound or diseased
- verb make unfit or unsuitable
Etymologies
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Examples
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The buzz on Cee Lo has been deafening, even if his new song has a title unfit for a family newspaper.
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The winner, Daniel Barbiere, declined to take the free car - a teal, 1993 Saturn SL1, which he described as unfit for the road with 125,000 miles on the odometer, four bald tires, a cracked windshield and four shades of paint.
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e_SDLqIt didn't fool me, Mario Huguet, 75, a psychoanalyst who called Mrs Thatcher a word unfit for publication, said after seeing the premiere.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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Well, I see this "unfit" is taking Roland Martin's and Rowe's advise about how he can "try" to bring his campaign back up.
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Mr. Smith said Newt has been called "unfit and unstable" by Romney surrogates, and that Mr. Romney had "mocked" the former speaker in Iowa.
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Unfortunately, he could only think of a phrase unfit for the maiden's ears.
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Children sent out into the word unfit physically or morally are factors detrimental to the best interests of society and to their own progress and prosperity.
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The victorious invaders who occupied the southern provinces of Europe speedily lost their own forms of speech, which were broken down, together with those of the vanquished, into a jargon unfit for composition.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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She grew up, I am sorry to say, a very unamiable person, ill-tempered, proud, stubborn, and, in short, unfit to make those around her happy or to be happy herself.
Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography")
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She grew up, I am sorry to say, a very unamiable person, ill-tempered, proud, stubborn, and, in short, unfit to make those around her happy, or to be happy herself.
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