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inapprehension |
inapprehensive |
inapproachable |
inappropriate |
inappropriately |
inappropriateness
| inapt
| inaptitude
| inaptness
| inaquate
| inaquation
inappropriateness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun inappropriateness has 2 senses
- inappropriateness(n = noun.attribute) wrongness - inappropriate conduct; Array is a kind of improperness, impropriety
- inappropriateness(n = noun.attribute) unworthiness - the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting; "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"; "his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness" is a kind of ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness
Antonym: appropriateness
Derived forms adjective inappropriate1, adjective inappropriate2
has particulars: inappositeness, inaptness, infelicity
Antonym: appropriateness
Derived form adjective inappropriate1
THESAURUS
inappropriateness
Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, disentitlement, empty claim, empty title, excess, false claim, futility, high camp, illegality, impoliticalness, impoliticness, improperness, impropriety, inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness, inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incongruity, inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, infraction, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, invalid claim, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim, lateness, low camp, maladjustment, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, no claim, philistinism, poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, sinfulness, tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness, unchastity, uncongeniality, undeservedness, undeservingness, undesirability, undueness, unentitledness, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unmeritedness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwiseness, uselessness, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism, vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, worthlessness, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongness
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