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adj
not suitable or appropriate; not inclined or quick to do something
His blunt remark was unapt for so solemn an occasion.
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From un- ('not') + apt, from Latin aptus ('fitted, suitable'), past participle of the obsolete apere ('to fasten, attach'), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ap- ('to grasp, reach').
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