unappropriate

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ appropriate.

Pronunciation

Verb

unappropriate (third-person singular simple present unappropriates, present participle unappropriating, simple past and past participle unappropriated)

  1. (transitive) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all.
    to unappropriate a monopoly

Adjective

unappropriate (comparative more unappropriate, superlative most unappropriate)

  1. (rare) Inappropriate; unsuitable.
  2. (obsolete) Not appropriated.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unappropriate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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