Unfitting

  

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Unfitting

Definition: Unfitting

Unfitting

Adjective

1. Not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior".

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

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


Synonyms: Unfitting

Synonyms: inappropriate (adj), incompatible (adj), out or keeping(p) (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: unfit meat (food & agriculture).

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Synonyms within Context: Unfitting

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Unfitting

"Unfitting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfitting" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unfitting

Language Translations for "unfitting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

déplacé (uncalled for, unpassable, unwarranted). (various references)

   

German

  

unpassend (ill timed, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inappropriately, inapt, incongruous, incongruously, indecorous, indecorously, inept, ineptly, inexpedient, inexpediently, infelicitous, inopportune, unbefitting, unfittingly, unpassable, unsuitable, unsuitably, untimely, untoward). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sconveniente (disadvantageous, disreputable, improper, inconvenient, misbecoming, nonu, suggestive, unattractive, ungentlemanly, unpassable, unseemly, untoward, wrong). (various references)

   

Manx

  

raa neuyesh (unfitting remark), raa meehraaoil (unfitting remark). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ittingunfay

   

Spanish

  

inoportuno (ill-time, inconvenient, inexpedient, inopportune, irrelevant, unfortunate, unhappy, unpassable, unseasonable, untimely, wrong). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

opassande (improper, improperly, inappropriate, inapt, indecent, indecorous, inept, off color, off colour, out of order, unbecoming, unmentionable, unseemly), olämplig (ill timed, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, misguided, unfit, unseasonable, unsuitable, unsuited). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không ăn khớp (cacophonous, untuned). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unfitting

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inopportunus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Unfitting

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-n-n-t-t-u"

-2 letters: fitting, nutting, tinting, tufting, uniting.

-3 letters: fining, gittin, intuit, tining, tuning.

-4 letters: fungi, unfit.

-5 letters: gift, inti, ting, tint, titi, tuft, tung, unit.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-i-i-n-n-t-t-u"
 

+2 letters: infatuating, unbefitting.

 

+5 letters: centrifugation, counterfeiting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unfitting


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

55 6E 66 69 74 74 69 6E 67

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)

01010101 01101110 01100110 01101001 01110100 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#102 &#105 &#116 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0066 0069 0074 0074 0069 006E 0067

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

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

558072758686758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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