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INAPT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inapt mean?
• INAPT (adjective)
The adjective INAPT has 1 sense:
1. not elegant or graceful in expression
Familiarity information: INAPT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: inaptest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not elegant or graceful in expression
Synonyms:
awkward; clumsy; cumbersome; ill-chosen; inapt; inept
Context example:
if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
Similar:
infelicitous (not appropriate in application; defective)
Derivation:
inaptness (inappropriateness)
Context examples
It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky; and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here and there some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fancied it was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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