Inapposite

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ɪnˈæpÉ™zɪt/

Origin

negative in- + apposite

Full definition of inapposite

Adjective

1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
• 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia LiterariaThis remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;