UNSUITABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsuitability mean? 

• UNSUITABILITY (noun)
  The noun UNSUITABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

  Familiarity information: UNSUITABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSUITABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ineptness; unsuitability; unsuitableness

Hypernyms ("unsuitability" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unsuitability"):

inappropriateness; unworthiness (the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting)

unfitness (the quality of not being suitable)

inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)

Antonym:

suitability (the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose)

Derivation:

unsuitable (not meant or adapted for a particular purpose)

unsuitable (not capable of being applied)

 Context examples 

“There can be no disparity in marriage, like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose”—“no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)