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UK
/ʌnsˈuːtəbəl/
]
[ US /ənˈsutəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ənˈsutəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not meant or adapted for a particular purpose
a solvent unsuitable for use on wood surfaces -
not conducive to good moral development
the movie is unsuitable for children -
not capable of being applied
rules inapplicable to day students - 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.
