Synonym: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inept. Similar words: inapplicable, inappropriate, napoleon bonaparte, a bull in a china shop, nap, snap, apt, napalm. Meaning: [‚ɪn'æpt] 
adj. not elegant or graceful in expression.
adj. not elegant or graceful in expression. (1) Yet it is not altogether inapt that the Hymn of Riego became the anthem of liberalism.
(2) He always makes inapt remarks.
(3) He had an inapt remark during the meeting.
(4) The word is inapt, however, in so far as it might suggest that it is in some way concerned with the relations between states (it is even more inapt if it suggests 'nations' rather than states).
(5) In this respect, the oft-quoted cathedral metaphor is not inapt.
(6) Both the barrister, and this court, accept with hindsight that his intervention was perhaps inapt or unfortunate.
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