unfit
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ʌnˈfɪt/
unfit (comparative unfitter, superlative unfittest)
- Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
- Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
- Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
- French: inapte, incapable, impropre
- German: untauglich
- Spanish: impropio
unfit (unfits, present participle unfitting; past and past participle unfitted)
- To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
- He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:
- These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
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