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infelicitous
adjective
(in-fe-lic-i-tous)
marked by or producing unhappiness
Synonyms:
unhappy
,
Examples:
Infelicitous circumstances.
infelicitous
adjective
(in-fe-lic-i-tous)
not appropriate in application; defective
Antonyms:
felicitous
,
Examples:
An infelicitous remark.
Infelicitous phrasing.
The infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy.
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infelicitous
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inapt
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clumsy
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awkward
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inept
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unfortunate
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unhappy
,
cumbersome
,
ill-chosen
,
ungrammatical
,
inelegant
,
felicitous
,
indelicate
,
unpoetic
,
ambiguous
,
undiplomatic
,
apposite
,
maladroit
,
prolix
,
ineloquent
,
tautological
,
adverbial
,
oxymoronic
,
adjectival
,
delphic
,
prepositional
,
polysyllabic
,
subjunctive
,
impolitic
,
longwinded
,
tendentious
,
accusative
,
denotative
,
prefatory
,
denunciatory
,
syllogistic
,
lexicographical
,
jejune
,
unscholarly
,
hortatory
,
interrogative
,
rhetorical
,
otiose
,
untranslatable
,
connotative
,
onomatopoetic
,
mealymouthed
,
nabokovian
,
deprecatory
,
pithier
,
parenthetical
,
sophistic
,
aphoristic
,
terminological
,
rebarbative
,
obtuse
,
overdetermined
,
grammatical
,
latinate
,
deprecating
,
contentless
,
jesuitical
,
hyperbolic
,
euphonious
,
verbose
,
assumptive
,
wordy
,
phrasal
,
euphemistic
,
overfamiliar
,
unsayable
,
sesquipedalian
,
pedantic
,
unpublishable
,
nonliteral
,
facetious
,
pejorative
,
unuttered
,
exclamatory
,
intransitive
,
unstatesmanlike
,
colloquial
,
unexceptionable
,
sophomoric
,
alliterative
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nonsensical
,
unobjectionable
,
ahistorical
,
risible
,
overhasty
,
declamatory
,
inefficacious
,
trite
,
epigrammatic
,
attributive
,
garbled
,
irenic
,
minatory
,
choicer
,
homophonic
,
intemperate
,
infelicitous
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