unsuit
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Cardinal Cullen, in his evidence before the Educational Committee, given in their report of 1870, frankly stated his opinion that education should be limited to "the three R's, the reading of the Scriptures, and the history of the Church. Too much education would make the poor discontented with their lot, and unsuit them for following the plough, using the spade, hammering iron, and building walls.""
- "It is a sunny, cheerful tree, full of glorious vitality, and always beautiful, though it may have faults that unsuit it for some places."
- "Being too tall would unsuit the person concerned from, say, being a bus-conductor in a situation where most buses have low ceilings!"
- "I swear the country's got warmer since the Great War. It makes men lazy, it makes them incompetent. It unsuits them to empire."
- "For example, the way that the straight part of the spring is modified to serve as a rudimentary hammer in the two-part mousetrap (figure 4.3) unsuits it to engaging the hammer in the three-part mousetrap (figure 4.4)."
- "The unsuiting and suiting up procedure was time-consuming and there was a risk of upsetting switches in the process, and he saw little point in taking off his suit now because they would require to suit up for the rendezvous.·"
Etymology
From un- + suit.