ill-suited

[ il-soo-tid ]

adjective

1. not suitable; inappropriate.

   Synonyms: inapt, unsuitable

   Antonyms: apt, suitable

Example Sentences

But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

From The Daily Beast

Companies are discovering the untapped brainpower of a group long thought ill suited to the office: adults on the autism spectrum.

From The Daily Beast

Secretly, however, Marie pines for Emil Bergson, a dreamer and intellect who seems ill-suited to life on a farm.

From The Daily Beast

But our instant-response culture and media are ill-suited to manage foreign-policy crises.

From The Daily Beast

My larger objection is that directly addressing schoolchildren on most matters is a role for which every president is ill-suited.

From The Daily Beast

Unfortunately, however, the minister whom the reformed had obtained was ill-suited to these troublous times.

From Project Gutenberg

The gay greetings of old friends, the pleasant babble in the breakfast room ill suited his reflective mood.

From Project Gutenberg

Bulrush millet, another native crop, was ill suited to Aaron's well-drained fields.

From Project Gutenberg

The cultivated and liberal mind of Tusser seems to have been ill-suited to his fortune, and to his vocation.

From Project Gutenberg

But in consequence of his ambition and usurpations, his reception at home was ill-suited to the character of his heroic deeds.

From Project Gutenberg