Inappropriateness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inappropriate \In`ap*pro"pri*ate\, a.
     Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable;
     not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for. --
     {In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ly}, adv. -- {In`ap*pro"pri*ate*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inappropriateness
       n 1: inappropriate conduct [syn: {wrongness}] [ant: {appropriateness}]
       2: the quality of not being particularly suitable [ant: {appropriateness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "inappropriateness":
     Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, bad taste,
     bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency,
     deviance, deviancy, disentitlement, empty claim, empty title,
     excess, false claim, futility, high camp, illegality,
     impoliticalness, impoliticness, improperness, impropriety,
     inadmissibility, inadvisability, inapplicability, inappositeness,
     inaptitude, inaptness, inauspiciousness, incongruity,
     inconvenience, inconveniency, incorrectness, indecency,
     indecorousness, indecorum, indelicacy, indiscreetness,
     indiscretion, inelegance, inelegancy, ineptitude, inexpedience,
     inexpediency, infelicity, infraction, inopportuneness,
     inopportunity, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion,
     invalid claim, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kitsch, lack of claim,
     lateness, low camp, maladjustment, mesalliance, misalliance,
     misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, no claim, philistinism,
     poor taste, pop, pop culture, prematurity, sinfulness,
     tastelessness, unaestheticism, unaestheticness, unbecomingness,
     unchastity, uncongeniality, undeservedness, undeservingness,
     undesirability, undueness, unentitledness, unfavorableness,
     unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unlawfulness,
     unmeetness, unmeritedness, unprofitability, unprofitableness,
     unpropitiousness, unrighteousness, unripeness, unseasonableness,
     unseemliness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness,
     unwiseness, uselessness, violation, vulgar taste, vulgarism,
     vulgarity, vulgarness, wickedness, worthlessness, wrong,
     wrongfulness, wrongness