Unfit vs Inadequate - What's the difference?
unfit | inadequate | Related terms |
Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
:Jack cannot run, making him unfit for the track team.
Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
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Unfit is a related term of inadequate.
As adjectives the difference between unfit and inadequate
is that unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements while inadequate is .As a verb unfit
is to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.unfit
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.
Verb
(unfitt)inadequate
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
- In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like education and health care remain woefully inadequate .