UNSUITED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsuited mean? 

• UNSUITED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSUITED has 1 sense:

1. not easy to combine harmoniously

  Familiarity information: UNSUITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSUITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not easy to combine harmoniously

Synonyms:

ill-sorted; incompatible; mismated; unsuited

Similar:

mismatched (either not matched or unsuitably matched)

 Context examples 

I used to fear that I was so unsuited to your learning and wisdom.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She began to feel the possibility of his turning out well at last; but he was and must ever be completely unsuited to her, and ought not to think of her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Elinor could not find herself in the carriage with Mrs. Jennings, and beginning a journey to London under her protection, and as her guest, without wondering at her own situation, so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She murmured, however, even in her reception of me, that she was out of her own chamber because its aspect was unsuited to her infirmity; and with her stately look repelled the least suspicion of the truth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes, Fanny, feeling it due to herself, returned to Mr. Crawford, and said, It is not merely in temper that I consider him as totally unsuited to myself; though, in that respect, I think the difference between us too great, infinitely too great: his spirits often oppress me; but there is something in him which I object to still more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)