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Unfit vs Unsafe - What's the difference?

unfit | unsafe |

As adjectives the difference between unfit and unsafe

is that unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements while unsafe is not safe; dangerous.

As a verb unfit

is to make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.

unfit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.
    • I've become so unfit after stopping cycling to town.

    Verb

    (unfitt)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * fit * unfitly * unfitness * unsuitable * inappropriate

    unsafe

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not safe; dangerous

    • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly