Usually means: Not suitable or appropriately skilled.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. unapt: Merriam-Webster
  2. unapt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unapt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. unapt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unapt: Wordnik
  6. unapt: Wiktionary
  7. unapt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. unapt: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. unapt: Dictionary.com
  10. Unapt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. unapt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Unapt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. unapt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. unapt: FreeDictionary.org
  15. unapt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unapt: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unapt)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete except in negative phrases) Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Unaccustomed.

Similar:
inapt, unapposite, inhabile, improper, unfitten, unfit, incommode, unsuited, unappropriate, insuitable, more...

Opposite:
apt, suitable, appropriate, fitting

Types:
inapt, improper, inappropriate, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, more...

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Similar:
inapt, unapposite, inhabile, improper, unfitten, unfit, incommode, unsuited, unappropriate, insuitable, more...

Opposite:
apt, suitable, appropriate, fitting

Types:
inapt, improper, inappropriate, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, more...



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