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Suitable vs Inapposite - What's the difference?

suitable | inapposite |

As adjectives the difference between suitable and inapposite

is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while inapposite is inappropriate, not suitable for the situation.

suitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

    • Synonyms

    * fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)

    Antonyms

    * unsuitable

    Derived terms

    * suitability

    See also

    * fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruous

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    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;