Unfit

Definition: Unfit

Unfit

Adjective

1. Below the required standards for a purpose; "an unfit parent"; "unfit for human consumption".

2. Not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service".

3. Physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth".

Verb

1. Make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unfit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Unfit

Disagreement

Inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos, inadmissible; inapposite; (irrelevant). uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable; unsympathetic.

Impotence

Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.

Adjective: powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled; Verb: armless.

Inexpedience

Adjective: inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable; objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious, discommodious; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit; (inconsonant).

Undueness

Improper; unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming, misbecoming; seemless; contra bonos mores; not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be.

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.

Wrong

Objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified; illegal; iniquitous; immoral.

Crosswords: Unfit

A code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote)

That as a monarch he was most unfit. (Oedipus Rex; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Products of Fish, Crustacean, Mollusk, or Aquatic Invertebrate Products That Are Unfit for Human Consumption: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Fitness for the Unfit (reference)

• Memoirs of an Unfit Mother (reference)

• Perri O'Shaugnessy Collection: Invasion of Privacy, Move to Strike, Unfit to Practice [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (reference)

• Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire Between the Wars (Studies in Imperialism) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Decomposing fish in the hold of a purse seiner. Fish decompose as a result of lack of refrigeration. Although this material is unfit for human consumption, it is used as a base for fishmeal for animal feed. Credit: Fisheries.

By Jove, sir -- forty per cent of the army recruits are physically unfit, due to malnutrition. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loading grapefruit unfit for packing to sell to local merchants, Fort Pierce, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Land unfit for farming. Martin County, Indiana. Erosion. Credit: Library of Congress.

A colony of twenty adobe houses built by the inhabitants with materials supplied by the Great Western Sugar Company. Thirteen of the houses are used, seven being unfit for habitation. In the thirteen houses, there live approximately fifty people. Being in. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Toast : the alcoholic unfit; here's to the guy that went in my place!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If therefore they must have one to rule them, as government is hardly to be avoided amongst men that live together; who so likely to be the man as he that was their common father; unless negligence, cruelty, or any other defect of mind or body made him unfit for it? But when either the father died, and left his next heir, for want of age, wisdom, courage, or any other qualities, less fit for rule; or where several families met, and consented to continue together; there, it is not to be doubted, but they used their natural freedom, to set up him, whom they judged the ablest, and most likely, to rule well over them. (Second Treatise of Government)

A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. (reference)

And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. (reference)

The German Government undertakes to deliver the materials, articles and animals as specified in the said communication, and the interested Allied and Associated Governments severally agree to accept the same, provided they conform to the specification given, or are not, in the judgment of the Commission, unfit to be utilised in the work of reparation. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Races petrified in dogma or demoralised by lucre are unfit to lead civilisation.

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

And thou unfit for any place but hell.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Children

Taiwan

Courts are authorized to appoint guardians for children who have either lost their parents or whose parents are deemed unfit. (references)

Sweden

Foster parents virtually never receive permission to adopt long-term foster children, even in cases where the parents are seen as unfit or seek no contact with the child. (references)

Economic History

El Salvador

PNC officers also have arrested a number of their own in connection with various high-profile crimes, and a "purification" process to weed out unfit personnel from throughout for force was undertaken late in 2000. U.S. assistance--about $2 million--has been critical in helping start innovative community policing programs that attack the gang problem head-on, training criminal investigators, and improving the training of police supervisors. (references)

Human Rights

Equatorial Guinea

For example, the CNDH found the prison in Bata to be in an advanced stage of deterioration and unfit for human habitation. (references)

Singapore

Women, men over age 50 or under age 16, and those determined unfit by a medical officer are exempted from punishment by caning. (references)

Philippines

The CHR stated that the Manila city jail was unfit for human habitation, housing 3,400 inmates in facilities designed to hold 1,000 inmates. (references)

Political Economy

Jamaica

The Government moved to release hundreds of persons declared mentally unfit to plead and then held without trial. (references)

Chile

On July 10, the Santiago Court of Appeals ruled that former president Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial, and temporarily suspended all legal proceedings in the Caravan of Death case against him pending an improvement in his condition. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

Party leaders appoint candidates for elections; many allege that some candidates effectively "purchase" nomination from party leaders with generous campaign contributions or personal "gifts." Under a 1996 constitutional amendment, general parliamentary elections are presided over by a caretaker government, led by the most recently retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or, if he is unfit or unwilling, another senior retired justice or other neutral figure. (references)

Trade

Norway

Samples may be imported into Norway free of customs charges if they are of little or no commercial value, or if they have been made unfit for use. (references)

Uruguay

From time to time the government bans the importation of certain food articles originating from areas declared by the World Health Organization to be unfit. (references)

Women

Iran

However, the law granted custody of minor children to the mother in certain divorce cases in which the father is proven unfit to care for the child, such as in cases in which the father suffers from drug addiction or has a criminal record. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "unfit": be unfit ♦ feel unfit ♦ returned unfit for duty ♦ the unfit ♦ unfit for consumption ♦ unfit for fighting ♦ unfit for habitation ♦ unfit for human consumption ♦ unfit for human habitation ♦ unfit for work ♦ unfit to drive ♦ unfit to eat ♦ unfit to plead. Additional references.

Albanian

i papërshtatshëm për shtyp (unprintable), i papërdorshëm (impracticable, rusty, unimproved, unusable), e bëj të papërshtatshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير كفؤ (incompetence, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, inept, misfit), ‏غير مؤهل (disqualified, hopeless, inadequate, incompetent, ineligible, unqualified). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неспособен (disabled, inapt, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, inept, unapt), негоден (disabled, disqualified, effete, incompetent, ineligible, moth-eaten, no good, outworn, played out, punk, sour, unequal, unqualified, unsuitable, waste), неподходящ (ill-suited, improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incorrect, ineligible, inept, infelicitous, injudicious, inopportune, irrelative, irrelevant, out of place, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncongenial, undignified, undue, unequal, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untoward, wrong), правя неспособен (disable, incapacitate, indispose, lame), правя негоден (crock, disable, disqualify, incapacitate, indispose, lame). (various references)

Chinese 

不適當 (inadequate), 不合适 (incongruous, ineptitude, unsuitability, unsuitable). (various references)

Czech

nezpùsobilý (incapable, incompetent), nevhodný (clumsy, ill timed, impolitic, improper, inadequate, inadvisable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, ineligible, inexpedient, inopportune, misbecoming, off-key, unappropriated, unapt, unbecoming, uncalled for, undesirable, undue, unlikely, unlucky, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely), neschopný (bungling, disabled, inadequate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, shiftless, unable, unworthy, useless). (various references)

Danish

ubrugelig (unsuitable). (various references)

Dutch

ongeschikt (inconvenient, unsuitable), ongepast (not fitting, unseemly), onberekend (unsuitable), misplaatst (not fitting, unseemly). (various references)

Esperanto

labornekapabla (disabled, unfit for work), labormaltaŭga (disabled, unfit for work), deklari netaŭga (condemn, declare unfit for use, scrap). (various references)

Farsi 

نامناسب کردن , نامناسب (Improper, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inapt, Incommensurate, Incompetent, Infelicitous, Inopportune, Malapropos, Unapt, Unhandsome, Unmeet, Unrighteous, Unsuitable, Untoward), ناشایسته (Improper, Inapt, Incompetent, Inept, Unbecoming, Unmeet, Unseemly, Unworthy), ناباب (Unsuitable). (various references)

Finnish

sopimaton (ill-timed, improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, indecent, not fit, unsuitable, untimely), kelpaamaton (not valid, useless). (various references)

French

inapte (unable, unsuitable, unsuited). (various references)

Frisian

arbeidsûngeskikt (disabled, unfit for work). (various references)

German

untauglich (disabled, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectively, ineffectual, ineligible, unable, unapt, unfitted, unsuitable), ungeeignet (improperly, inappropriate, inappropriately, ineligible, inexpedient, unaptly, uneligible, unfitted, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuitably, unsuited). (various references)

Greek 

ακατάλληλοσ (improper, inappropriate, inapt, inconvenient, ineligible, miscast, unapt, unsuitable), ανίκανοσ (duffer, helpless, impotent, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, shiftless, unable). (various references)

Hebrew 

לא יצלח (dud, duffer, good for nothing, muff, wastrel), לא כשיר, לא ראוי (unworthy), פסול (carving, defective, disqualified, fault, hewing, ineligible, invalid, rejected, sculpture, sculpturing), חול�" (ill, infirm, inmate, patient, sick, unwell). (various references)

Hungarian

alkalmatlan (awkward, importunate, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, inconvenient, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, mistimed, trying, unfeasible, unsuitable, unsuited, unwelcome). (various references)

Indonesian

tak cakap. (various references)

Italian

inadatto (inappropriate, inapt, incapable, maladjusted, misbecoming, unable, undue, unsuitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不向き (unmarketable, unsuitable). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふむき (unmarketable, unsuitable). (various references)

Manx

neuchooie (inapplicable, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, indecent, ineligible, inordinate, out of place, undesirable), drogh foaynoo er, aslayntagh (ailing, ill, unhealthy), anchooie (improper). (various references)

Pig Latin

itunfay

Portuguese

tornar inapto, tornar impróprio, que não serve (unsuited), pouco próprio, incompetente (incompetent, unable, unqualified), incapaz (disabled, efficacious, forceless, impotent, impoverished, inapt, incapable, incomplete, ineffective, inefficient, inept, insusceptible, powers, unable, unapt, unsusceptible), incapacitar (disable, disenable, disentomb, disquiet, incapacitate, Nobby), inapto (inapt, incapable, unapt, unmeet, unqualified, unsuitable, useless), impróprio (Amiss, discreditable, faked, ill, ill treat, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incapacious, incongruous, inconvenient, naughty, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncomely, undignified, unmeet, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, unworthy, useless), em más condições físicas. (various references)

Romanian

nepotrivit (awkward, bad, discordant, dissonant, ill-matched, ill-sorted, improper, inadequate, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incapable, incongruous, inconsistent, incorrect, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, insufficient, intrusive, irrelevant, malapropos, misbecoming, off color, off colour, out of character, out of date, out of point, timeless, unapt, unbecoming, uncalled for, uncomely, undue, unequal, unmeet, unseasonable, untimely, unwarranted), nefolositor (castaway, Duff, futile, idle, of no avail, piddling, profitless, unsuitable, useless, waste), neadecvat (inadequate), incapabil (effete, feckless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficient, insufficient, shiftless, unable, unapt, unequal). (various references)

Russian 

негодный (cast off, chaffy, dead, ineligible, refuse, rotten, unimproved, unqualified, waste), неподходящий (ill-suited, ill-timed, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, ineligible, inopportune, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncongenial, undesirable, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuited, unusable), делать непригодным (disqualify, indispose). (various references)

Scottish

mi-iomchuidh (improper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učiniti nepodesnim, onesposobiti (cripple, disable, hamstring, incapacitate, indispose, spike), nesposoban (incapable, incapacious, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, unable), neprilagođen (adapt: not adapted, unadjusted), neodgovarajući (inadequate, unsuitable, unsuited), nedorastao (immature). (various references)

Spanish

incapaz (helpless, incapable, inefficient, lame, lame brain, unable). (various references)

Swedish

oduglig (disabled, dud, good for nothing, inapt, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, unqualified, unsuitable, useless), olämplig (ill timed, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, misguided, unfitting, unseasonable, unsuitable, unsuited). (various references)

Turkish

uygun olmayan (disagreeable, improper, inadaptable, inappropriate, inapt, unadaptable, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, unsuitable, unsuited), yetersiz yapmak (underdo), yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), işe yaramaz hale getirmek, işe yaramaz (dud, fiddling, good for nothing, idle, it's no use, no good, noneffective, non-effective, null, of no avail, of no use, offcast, otiose, out, refuse, reject, unserviceable, useless, weedy), elverişsiz (disabled, disadvantageous, inadequate, incapable, inconvenient, ineligible, insusceptible, unfavorable, unfavourable, unhandy, unpropitious, unsuitable, unsuited), box (empty, free, unoccupied, unsuitable, vacant, void), abes (abortive, absurd, fruitless, futile, meaningless, nonsense, nugatory, trivial, unreasonable, unsuitable, useless, vain). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити непридатним (disqualify), нездоровий (ailing, decadent, feverish, indisposed, insalubrious, noisome, noxious, off color, off colour, sickly, unsound, unwell, unwholesome, useless), нездатний (incapable, inefficient, unable), непридатний (chaffy, good for nothing, ineligible, insufficient, non-effective, of no avail, outcast, refuse, trumpery, unsuitable, unusable, useless, without avail), дискваліфікувати (disqualify). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thiếu khả năng (incompetent, inefficient), không dùng được; l� m cho không thích hợp; không đủ năng lực. (various references)

Welsh

anghymwys (unsuitable), anghymhwyso (disqualify), anghyfaddasu (disqualify), anghyfaddas (unsuitable), anaddasu (disqualify), anaddas (improper, unsuitable). (various references)

indignus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "unfit": unfitly, unfitness, unfitnesses, unfits, unfitted, unfitting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Unfit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: infit, nuft, Nurit, Rumfitt, Ufi, uift, Uncf, unfast, unfet, unfish, unfitt, unfy, Ungirt, unhit, unii, uniq, Unish, univ, unnit, upfit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: unit.

-2 letters: fin, fit, fun, nit, nut, tin, tui, tun.

-3 letters: if, in, it, nu, ti, un, ut.

+1 letter: tinful, unfits, unfixt.

+2 letters: antiflu, antifur, fluting, fustian, futzing, outfind, tinfuls, tufting, turfing, unfaith, unfitly, unshift.

+3 letters: faulting, figurant, finitude, flouting, flutings, fountain, fruiting, fruition, fumigant, function, funkiest, funniest, fustians, gunfight, gunflint, influent, infought, outfinds, quantify, refuting, stuffing, trainful, unfaiths, unfitted, ungifted, unshifts, unsifted.

+4 letters: antifraud, bountiful, buffeting, confiture, confuting, fatiguing, faunistic, featuring, fecundity, fettucine, fettucini, figurants, finitudes, flauntier, flaunting, fortuning, fountains, fruitions, fulminant, fulminate, fumigants, functions, furcating, furcation, furniture, fusionist, fustiness, gunfights, gunflints, hifalutin, infatuate, influents, infuriate, interfuse, outfacing, outfiring, outflying, outfoxing, plaintful, plentiful, snuffiest, stuffings, sulfating, trainfuls, trunkfish, tumefying, ultrafine, undutiful, unfairest, unfertile, unfitness, unfitting, unshifted, unthrifty, uplifting, upwafting, wulfenite.

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