unfit
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[edit]unfit (comparative unfitter or more unfit, superlative unfittest or most unfit)
- Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- Synonym: unsuitable
- Antonyms: fit, suitable
- Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
- 1953 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 284:
- The latter engine was found unfit to take its return working at 5.35 p.m. from Luton, and No. 45616, Malta G.C., was provided by Kentish Town as substitute.
- 1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
- On September 7, 1993, Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her own mother. A Virginia judge found that her sexual relationship with her lover was immoral and rendered her an unfit parent.
- Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
- Synonym: out of shape
- Antonyms: fit, in shape
- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
- (often with for) Unsuitable for a particular purpose.
- 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 56:
- Sadly, the station that proves to be the busiest - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is unfit for purpose. It possesses a tiny canopy back from the platform that offers little in the way of shelter or amenities, other than a couple of benches.
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[edit]not fit; not having the correct requirements
not having a good physical demeanour
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Verb
[edit]unfit (third-person singular simple present unfits, present participle unfitting, simple past and past participle unfitted)
- To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
- 2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 403:
- This life entirely unfits you for general practice.
- 2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 31:
- The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: "Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties."
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[edit]- “unfit”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.