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Inapplicable vs Inapposite - What's the difference?

inapplicable | inapposite |

As adjectives the difference between inapplicable and inapposite

is that inapplicable is not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case while inapposite is inappropriate, not suitable for the situation.

inapplicable

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.

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    inapposite

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
  • * 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
    • This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;