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English
Etymology
in- + appropriate
Pronunciation
Adjective
inappropriate (comparative more inappropriate, superlative most inappropriate)
- Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
It is inappropriate to burp at a formal dinner.
The violent movie is inappropriate for school.
- (informal, in particular) Improper; adult; sexual.
kids saying inappropriate things
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
not appropriate or suitable
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: yersiz, tutarsız, uyğunsuz, namünasib
- Bulgarian: неподходящ (bg) (nepodhodjašt), неуместен (bg) (neumesten), несъответстващ (nesǎotvetstvašt)
- Catalan: inapropiat
- Danish: upassende
- Dutch: ongepast (nl)
- Esperanto: malkonvena
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sopimaton (fi), epäasiallinen, asiaton (fi)
- French: inapproprié (fr), déplacé (fr)
- Galician: inapropiado, fóra de lugar
- German: unangebracht (de), unangemessen (de), unpassend (de)
- Greek: ακατάλληλος (el) (akatállilos)
- Gujarati: અયોગ્ય (ayogya)
- Hungarian: alkalmatlan (hu), helytelen (hu)
- Japanese: そぐわない (soguwanai), 場違いな (bachigai na), 不相応な (ja) (fusōō na), 不適切な (ja) (futekisetsu na)
- Lakota: šikšíl
- Macedonian: несоо́дветен (nesoódveten), непри́годен (neprígoden), недо́личен (nedóličen)
- Mongolian: эегүй (ejegüj)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: upassende (no), uheldig (no), malplassert, uskikket
- Nynorsk: upassande, uheldig, malplassert, uskikka
- Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: niewłaściwy (pl), nieodpowiedni (pl)
- Portuguese: inapropriado (pt)
- Romanian: inadecvat (ro), necorespunzător (ro), impropriu (ro), inoportun (ro), nepotrivit (ro)
- Russian: неуместный (ru) (neumestnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: neprìkladan (sh)
- Spanish: inapropiado (es)
- Swedish: opassande (sv), olämplig (sv)
- Turkish: uygunsuz (tr)
- Welsh: please add this translation if you can
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Italian
Adjective
inappropriate
- feminine plural of inappropriato