Infelicitous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inappropriate; ill-chosen: an infelicitous remark.
  • adj. Not happy; unfortunate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Unhappy or unfortunate.
  • adj. Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not felicitous, happy, or fortunate; unhappy: as, an infelicitous marriage.
  • Unskilful; inapt; inappropriate; ill-timed: as, an infelicitous expression.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by or producing unhappiness
  • adj. not appropriate in application; defective
    • Equivalent
    unfortunate    awkward    cumbersome    ill-chosen    clumsy    inapt    inept   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unhappy    unfortunate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tautologous    diasporic    ill-adapted    two-proton    emphatical    overfree    unboyish    taxonomic    clink    appeared   
     
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