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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.

The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.

nding 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.

Unsuitable. [Obs.] -- In*suit`a*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]

Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean. Johnson.

Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited. [Obs.] "Matchless ears." Spenser. -- Match"less*ly, adv. -- Match"less*ness, n.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

To match unsuitably.

To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.

Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.

Not agreeing or consistent; unsuitable. Shak. -- Un`a*gree"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*gree"a*bly, adv.

Inappropriate; unsuitable.

Unsuitable; unfit; inappropriate. Macaulay.