Infelicitous

3 definitions found

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

  Infelicitous \In`fe*lic"i*tous\, a.
     Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or
     appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or
     done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark;
     an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  infelicitous
       adj 1: not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous
              remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous
              typesetting was due to illegible copy" [ant: {felicitous}]
       2: marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous
          circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot
          through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series
          [syn: {unhappy}]

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

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "infelicitous":
     Doric, bad, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, careless, clumsy,
     coarse, crude, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, faulty, futile,
     graceless, gross, harsh, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted,
     ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned,
     ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, imprecise, improper,
     impure, in bad taste, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable,
     inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, inconcinnate,
     inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecorous,
     inelegant, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, intempestive,
     intrusive, irrelevant, late, loose, low, mal a propos, maladjusted,
     malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistimed,
     off base, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping,
     out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion,
     out of season, out of time, out of tune, outlandish, premature,
     rude, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, tasteless, too late,
     too soon, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncourtly,
     uncouth, undesirable, undignified, uneuphonious, unfavorable,
     unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungraceful,
     ungrammatic, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unpolished,
     unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrefined,
     unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely,
     untoward, unwise, vulgar, wrong