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The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, improperiety of behavior or manners.

The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

ngth, power, capacity, means, qualifications, or the like; incapable; unable; inadequate; unfit. Incompetent to perform the duties of the place. Macaulay.

The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. Hooker.

Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language. Cowper.

To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill.

The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. Tatler.

Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.

Unfitness; ineptitude. The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More.

expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.

Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter. [Obs.]

Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability. [Obs.] Barrow.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

Unfit for respiration; not having the qualities necessary to support animal life; as, irrespirable air.

To join unfitly or improperly.

Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." Addison.

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] "Nefand adominations." Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." Cotton Mather.