unsuitable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English suit

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English suitable

English unsuitable

From un- + suitable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈsuːtəbəl/, /ʌnˈsjuːtəbəl/
• Hyphenation: un‧suit‧a‧ble

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Adjective

unsuitable (comparative more unsuitable, superlative most unsuitable)

1. Not suitable.

   Synonyms: unfit, inappropriate, inadequate; see also Thesaurus:unsuitable

   Antonyms: suitable, appropriate

   • 1944, John A. Pope, “Geography”, in China (Smithsonian Institution War Background Studies), number 20, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, page 7:

     The great so-called seaport of T‘ien-ching (Tientsin), some 75 miles to the southeast, actually lies 40 miles from the sea on the Hai Ho, which is unsuitable for any but light navigation.

   • 1957 December, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837:

     It is intended to develop San Lourenzo^[sic] into a deep-water port, as Guayaquil is highly unsuitable because of drifting silt banks and a thirty-mile river approach.

   • 1968, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, volumes 38-40, page 232:

     Numerous excursions into the field proved to the author that stone axes were unsuitable for gathering shaftings of the proper diameter for arrows. Chopping resulted in long tapering ends […]

Derived terms

• unsuitability
• unsuitably

Translations

not suitable — see also inadequate,‎ inappropriate

• Bulgarian: неподходя́щ (bg) (nepodhodjášt)
• Catalan: inadequat
• Czech: nevhodný (cs)
• Dutch: ongeschikt (nl), ongepast (nl)
• Finnish: sopimaton (fi)
• Galician: inadecuado
• Georgian: შეუფერებელი (šeuperebeli), არასათანადო (arasatanado), გამოუსადეგარი (ka) (gamousadegari)
• German: untauglich (de)
• Greek: ακατάλληλος (el) (akatállilos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀνάρτιος (anártios)

• Gujarati: અયોગ્ય (ayogya)
• Hindi: अनुचित (hi) (anucit), अयोग्य (hi) (ayogya), अपात्र (hi) (apātra)
• Hungarian: alkalmatlan (hu), célszerűtlen (hu)
• Irish: mí-oiriúnach
• Italian: inadatto (it)
• Japanese: そぐわない (soguwanai), 不適当な (ja) (futekitō na), 不適切な (ja) (futekisetsu na), 不相応な (ja) (fusōō na)
• Latin: alienus (la)
• Macedonian: несоодветен m (nesoodveten)
• Māori: pakarā, hēhē
• Marathi: अयोग्य (ayogya), गैरसोयीचा (gairsoyīcā)
• Plautdietsch: onpaussent
• Polish: nieodpowiedni (pl), niestosowny (pl), niewłaściwy (pl)
• Romanian: neadecvat (ro), neconvenabil (ro), inconvenabil (ro), nepotrivit (ro), nenimerit
• Russian: неподходя́щий (ru) (nepodxodjáščij)
• Spanish: inconvenible (es), desconvenible
• Swedish: olämplig (sv)
• Uyghur: ئەپسىز (epsiz), بىئەپ (bi'ep)