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ill-suited Definition

ill·-suited (-so̵̅o̅t′id)

adjective

not suited or appropriate
ill-suited Synonyms

ill-suited

modif.

inappropriate, unsuitable, mismatched; see unsuitable.

ill-suited Usage Examples

Preposition: for

  • life: After all, our inherited natures were shaped in a radically different environment, and have left us often ill-suited for modern life.

Modifying Another Word

  • particularly: This makes single inheritance particularly ill-suited to UI frameworks.
  • supremely: Such an approach is supremely ill-suited to the plural world which globalization has created.
  • so: The result is TECHNOLOGY centered systems that generate failures because they are so ill-suited to the work at hand.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Harrison's aging hero also seems ill-suited to tackling heavily-armed henchmen and relies a little too heavily on past movie characterisations.

Modifies a noun

  • scheme: This minimizes the danger of an ill-suited scheme gaining too much of a head of steam.