inapposite

形容词 adj.
/ɪnˈæpəzɪt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
    — 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;

词形变化

more inapposite comparative most inapposite superlative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English apposite
English inapposite
From in- + apposite.
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