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Webster 1913 Edition
Inapposite
In-ap′po-site
,Adj.
Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.
– In-ap′po-site-ly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inapposite
INAP'POSITE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
inapposite
inapposite
English
Adjective
inapposite (comparative more inapposite, superlative most inapposite)
- inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
- This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria