unfitting

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unfitting

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From Middle English unfitting, equivalent to un- + fitting.

adjective more unfitting · most unfitting

Not fitting (e.g., of clothes). Haley looked down at her unfitting clothes and answered. “I don't really have anything else. I was traveling a lot, so I didn't have much stuff to carry around.” Sam frowned and got up. “I can give you some of my clothes[…]”
That is not fitting for its purpose; unsuitable; improper. So the puzzle of the unfitting answer is solved immediately by the interviewee himself, and interactionally recognized as such by the laughing mode in which the participants deal with it.

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@misc{unfitting_2026,
  title = {unfitting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/unfitting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}