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What is the adjective for unsuitable?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb unsuit which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

unsuited
  1. Not suited to a specific purpose.
  2. Not compatible; mismatched.
  3. Not wearing a suit.
  4. (poker, said of two or more cards) Not of the same suit.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. unequipped, unfitted, unqualified, unsuitable, inappropriate, inapt, incompatible, unfitting, unprepared, unseemly, unfit, improper, infelicitous, wrong, inapposite, malapropos, untoward, inexpedient, untimely, inopportune, unseasonable, incongruous, unapt, unbecoming, indecorous, inept, ill-suited, unhappy, unbefitting, incorrect, amiss, inconvenient, undue, perverse, graceless, unfortunate, inadequate, out of place, inadmissible, inapplicable, unpropitious, ill-advised, inadvisable, adverse, unacceptable, discordant, disadvantageous, inauspicious, regrettable, unpromising … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “This boy is clearly unsuited for the job, and is only taking it to earn the few pennies it pays.”
      “Its Hesiodic style was appropriate for the cosmogony he describes in the second part, but is unsuited to the arid dialectic of the first.”
      “Using sortition to fill a single-person office could easily lead to choosing a person unsuited for the job.”
unsuitable
  1. Not suitable; unfit; inappropriate.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. inappropriate, improper, inapt, unseemly, unbecoming, inapposite, incongruous, indecorous, wrong, unfit, infelicitous, incorrect, malapropos, inept, untoward, unapt, amiss, unacceptable, unsuited, graceless, perverse, incompatible, unfitting, unhappy, unbefitting, discordant, clashing, undue, inadmissible, inconsistent, irrelevant, inharmonious, jarring, discrepant, inadequate, unseasonable, ineligible, disproportionate, dissonant, disparate, disagreeable, senseless, unmatched, interfering, unflattering, ill-suited, out of place, uncalled-for, out of keeping, not proper … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It is rapidly becoming a tool that is unsuitable for modern application development.”
      “It went largely unnoticed by Russian readers and critics as it appeared at a most unsuitable time, just after the Revolution.”
      “It was only his father who scolded him more strictly for his unsuitable behavior.”
insuitable
  1. Obsolete form of unsuitable.
unsuiting
  1. present participle of unsuit
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