UNFITTING Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

unfitting

adjective

Definition of unfitting

as in inappropriate

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Recent Examples of unfitting Megan Rapinoe smiling through teary eyes, her emotions clashing as the end of her famed career ambles to an unfitting close. — Candace Buckner, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023 His usual formula—high energy, frolicsome, all fast cuts—seemed unfitting. — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2022 If the Suns didn’t already make clear that the Mavericks are halfway to a humbling and unfitting end to their encouraging season, Phoenix fans underscored the fact Wednesday night as subtly as rolling out a guillotine. — Dallas News, 5 May 2022 Such a tone may at first sound wildly unfitting for a novel set against the coronavirus pandemic. — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2021 But this week, Emy seems to be coming for her unfitting crown. — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021

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Adjective

There has been some opposition, including from the Mauthausen Committee, Austria’s main Holocaust survivors’ group, which has argued both that a police station is inappropriate and that more should be done to draw attention to Hitler’s crimes.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
State auditors found in 2018 that $700K in voucher money being spent on cosmetics, clothing, and other inappropriate items.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of inappropriate

Adjective

An improper diagnosis can trail a child through their school years, Fombonne said, but a different, underlying condition the person might have—such as depression and anxiety—might go untreated.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades heard arguments on how improper practices that evaded regulatory oversight turned a small fire into a tragedy as the case neared its conclusion Friday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026

Definition of improper

Adjective

False endorsement and misappropriation, FanDuel could insist, are inapplicable to a personalized video setting where the video’s talent voluntarily assents in exchange for compensation.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026
The LLCs contested, arguing the alter ego finding was inapplicable and Illinois law didn't permit such piercing in supplementary proceedings.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of inapplicable

Adjective

Casting a shadow, though, was that controversy over Balogun’s reinstatement, and the unseemly likelihood politics have butted in where politics don’t belong and should never be.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026
Don Marshall, known for his core role on the ABC sci-fi series Land of the Giants, plays the hard-working young professional, who is subjected to an unseemly outpouring of prejudice that the Ingalls family is alone in rebuking.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026

Definition of unseemly

Adjective

Especially the guy who bangs a wrecking ball against the historic East Wing to make room for an incongruous ballroom monstrosity, who mars the sacred Oval Office with gold glitter and paves over the lovely Rose Garden.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The beloved Greengrass wallpaper, with its incongruous scenes of old New Orleans, has been absorbing the smell for many decades.

— David Remnick, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

Definition of incongruous

Adjective

Yet there is something singularly unbecoming about a franchise as American as Superman (and its adjuncts) being willfully stripped of its patriotism and good cheer.

— Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 11 July 2026
With nothing but the season at stake, Georgia won in a fashion most unbecoming a team that leads Division I in home runs.

— Ken Sugiura, AJC.com, 17 June 2026

Definition of unbecoming

Adjective

West Germany 2-1 Netherlands A tournament that was dominated by security concerns in the early stages, and then slightly ruined later on by a sustained period of rainy weather which left the pitches unfit for quality football.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 23 July 2026
Within the context of the ongoing debate, the comment suggested the financial tie could make the company unfit to own the parking meter system.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

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