unsuitable

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unsuitable and unacceptable
amiss
be in bad, poor, the worst possible, etc. tasteidiom
beneath your dignityidiom
beyond
beyond the paleidiom
incorrect
incorrectly
indecent
ineligibility
ineligible
over-extravagant
raffish
raffishly
raffishness
room
unsuitability
unsuitable
unsuitably
unsupportable
unwarrantable

Examples of unsuited

unsuited
However, the authors do not conclude that formal social protection programmes are intrinsically unsuited to the region.
The radically different political context in which this institution was created made it unsuited to many of the tests that follow.
Many prince-bishops were unsuited for their spiritual office : some never advanced beyond minor orders.
This is partly because they deal with complex topics, yet also because their language is unnecessarily complicated and their layout unsuited to the reader's needs.
A second objection is that this school has focused on long-term patterns in stable countries and is unsuited to the study of transitional societies.
Further, uncertainty may be unstructured and therefore unsuited for the kind of analytical tools that the standard framework relies upon.
Unfortunately the data set was unsuited for a quantitative investigation of possessives with head nouns that require morphological marking.
However, because personal narratives were unsuited to this essay writing task, they were assigned lower scores by expert readers.
Because of this view, he insisted that semantic representations were quite unsuited as underlying syntactic structures.
This idea seems both theologically controversial and unsuited to transnational, multi-cultural and predominantly secular contexts of modern anti-corruption campaigns.
But they would not solve the fundamental problem, which intuitively is that his nature is unsuited for farming.
The cold held no fear for them-and they seldom complained about the heat, even though their dress (long black soutanes and dog-collars) was quite unsuited for heat.
The studied mangrove was composed of living trees, most of them isolated, so that their distribution corresponded to a heavily fragmented habitat unsuited for studies on ant territoriality.
Difficulties arose when the landholder died and no heir existed to take his place, or when the heir was in some way unsuited to assume control.
Evolutionary systems were examined as a possible medium to address a greater sense of interactivity, but were found to be comparatively unsuited to dealing with the problem in context.
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