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inappropriate

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌɪnəˈpɹəʊpɹi.ət//
  • United States//ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət//

Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.

adjective

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    informalImproper; adult; sexual.

    kids saying inappropriate things

  3. 3

    informal(of an action or thing) vile or unpleasant; repulsive.

    Discrimination and abuse are examples of inappropriate actions.

  4. 4

    informalToo vile.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English appropriate English inappropriate From in- + appropriate.

Forms

comparative
more inappropriate
superlative
most inappropriate
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).