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Word Meanings - INAPPROPRIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not instrument ; not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv. -- In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness, n.

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  • CONTRARIANT
    Contrary; opposed; antagonistic; inconsistent; contradictory. The struggles of contrariant factions. Coleridge. (more info) oppose, fr. L. contrarius: cf. F. contrariant, p.pr. of contrarier to
  • FALSENESS
    The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • INOPPORTUNELY
    Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
  • FALSE-FACED
    Hypocritical. Shak.
  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • WRONG
    1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
  • ALIENAGE
    1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. Note: The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization.
  • ALIENATE
    1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. 2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • ABSONANT
    Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.
  • AMISSIBILITY
    The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • FALSETTO
    A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
  • DEFECTIVE
    Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
  • FOREIGNER
    A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
  • FOREIGNNESS
    The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
  • SHORTCAKE
    An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
  • WRONGLESS
    Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.
  • ABORTIVE
    Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr. Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. (more info) 1. Produced by abortion; born
  • INALIENABLY
    In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.
  • SALIENT
    Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion. (more info) 1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne. 2. Shooting out up; springing;
  • INALIENABLE
    Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.
  • SUPERSALIENCY
    The act of leaping on anything. Sir T. Browne.

 

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