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[ UK /ʌnsˈuːtəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ənˈsutəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not meant or adapted for a particular purpose
    a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces
  2. not conducive to good moral development
    the movie is unsuitable for children
  3. not capable of being applied
    rules inapplicable to day students
  4. not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse)

How To Use unsuitable In A Sentence

  • Through the logging practice streams silted up, and the waters were warmed to a level unsuitable for the survival of fry.
  • Indigenisation is good, but too often missionaries, in their desire to indigenise the newly-planted churches, rush into appointing men who turn out to be unsuitable.
  • The word blighting here, noted as unsuitable by Rossetti, is cancelled in the Bodleian manuscript (Locock). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Some patients have asystole from the onset of arrest and are unsuitable for defibrillation by the ambulance crew or bystanders.
  • A very unsuitable substance, however, was selected for the purpose, viz., sawdust, which is hygroscopic organic, and combustible. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
  • It did not contain any circuitry to limit damaging electrical spikes, so it is quite unsuitable for use with a computer.
  • Staff at Sutton feel these often arise from an unsuitable curriculum.
  • This technique would, however, have been unsuitable for the extraction of harder stones such as granite.
  • Banks may still be selling unsuitable hedging products to small companies, the City regulator has warned. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some have left in their wake a trail of disconsolate and usually highly unsuitable young men.
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