inapposite adj : of an inappropriate or misapplied nature [syn: out of place]

English

Etymology

negative in- + apposite

Pronunciation

(US) IPA: /ɪnˈæpəzɪt/

Adjective

1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

     This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;

adrift, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, ill-adapted, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, immaterial, impertinent, improper, inadmissible, inapplicable, inappropriate, inapt, incidental, inconsequent, inept, infelicitous, irrelative, irrelevant, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, off the subject, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out-of-the-way, parenthetical, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unessential, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unqualified, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable