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INHABILE

Definition: INHABILE

INHABILE

Adjective

1. Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person.

2. Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; as, inhabile matter.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Inhabile \In*hab"ile\, adjective. [Latin expression inhabilis: compare to the French expression inhabile. See In- not, and Habile, and compare to Unable.]. (references)

Synonyms within Context: INHABILE

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unskillfulness	Inapt, unapt; inhabile; untractable, unteachable; giddy; (inattentive); inconsiderate; (neglectful); stupid; inactive; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified; unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: INHABILE

Non-English Usage: "INHABILE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (gauche, incapable, inefficient, unable).

Anagrams: INHABILE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-i-i-l-n"
	-2 letters: bailie, habile, inhale.
	-3 letters: alibi, alien, aline, anile, biali, binal, blain, blini, elain, liane, nihil.
	-4 letters: able, anil, bail, bale, bane, bani, bean, bile, bine, blae, blah, blin, elan, elhi, haen, hail, hale, heal, heil, hila, hili, ilea, ilia, inia, lain, lane, lean, lien, line, nabe, nail.
	-5 letters: ail, ain, alb, ale, ane, ani.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-i-i-l-n"
	+2 letters: habiliment.
	+3 letters: habiliments, inhabitable, inheritable.
	+4 letters: biotechnical, childbearing, diminishable, establishing, inhospitable, labyrinthine, rehabilitant.
	+5 letters: alphabetizing, biomechanical, brainchildren, changeability, childbearings, inexhaustible, inexhaustibly, rehabilitants, uninhabitable.
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Alternative Orthography: INHABILE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 4E 48 41 42 49 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.. -. .... .- -... .. .-.. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001110 01001000 01000001 01000010 01001001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

I N H A B I L E

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004E 0048 0041 0042 0049 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4348423536434639

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