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Malapropos

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Out of place; inappropriate.

ad. In an inappropriate or inopportune manner.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. out of place; inappropriate

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adjective-and-adverb. Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Inappropriate; out of place; inapt; unseasonable: as, a malapropos remark.

Unsuitably; unseasonably.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature

ad. at an inconvenient time

Word Usage

"Next day, thanks to his histrionic powers and his ingratiating address, he was promoted to the rank of "supernumerary captain's servant" -- a "post which," I give his words, "I flatter myself, was created for me alone, and furnished me with opportunities unequalled for a task in which one word malapropos would have been my destruction.""

Equivalent

out of place inapposite

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

unsuitable