Definitions for inapt

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IPA: /ɪnˈæpt/

Inapt is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in inapt (ainpt).

Definitions for inapt

adjective

  1. not apt or fitting.
  2. without aptitude or capacity.

Origin of inapt

First recorded in 1735-45; in-3 + apt

Examples for inapt

The title Alone strikes me, on reflection, as rather an inapt one for this volume.

Its name is a rather indefinite, but not inapt characterization.

Especially were I and my sister Eliza inapt in this particular.

The colony is as unpromising, as the colonists are inapt to improve it.

Everybody on TV seemed to like it, but I found it ... not exactly inappropriate, but inapt.

My fellow servants were neither indifferent, dull, nor inapt.

The sentences were too long, the metaphors violent and inapt.

Andromache offers a not inapt illustration to these remarks.

He is known by an offensive and inapt title—the green-tailed towhee.

I will question her; or since you fear I may put some inapt question to her, do so yourself.

Word Value for inapt
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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