Definitions for inapposite

inapposite in·ap·po·site

Spelling: [in-ap-uh-zit]
IPA: /ɪnˈæp ə zɪt/

Inapposite is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 639 anagrams from letters in inapposite (aeiinoppst).

Definitions for inapposite

adjective

  1. not apposite; not pertinent.

Origin of inapposite

First recorded in 1655-65; in-3 + apposite

Examples for inapposite

This speech of Aeneas, though not inapposite, is rather didactic—a fault which always remained a danger to Euripides.

It depends for its effect, not upon ornament, which perforce appears trivial and inapposite, but upon its mass.

Why, I was almost tempted to join in the general merriment his inapposite reply elicited.

They are not content to tell you that this or that inapposite event has taken place.

This lesson is, perhaps, not inapposite for a nation already proud in arms but new in history.

And any two lines, no matter how inapposite, can174 be æsthetically related by other lines properly placed.

He stood before his bookshelves trying to select a volume, rejecting one after another as inapposite.

Inconvenient, vulgar, inapposite, this should debar even the subscribers from obtaining probate for their wills.

But certain it is that the notes wherewith he decorated his margins are triumphs of inapposite erudition.

As for Jenny Trewhella, madness would have to help the signature of such an inapposite conjunction.

Word Value for inapposite
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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