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Unjust vs Unfit - What's the difference?

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Unjust is a related term of unfit.


As adjectives the difference between unjust and unfit

is that unjust is not fair, just or right while unfit is not fit; not having the correct requirements.

As a verb unfit is

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

unjust

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not fair, just or right.
  • The solution was very unjust .

    Synonyms

    * unfair

    Antonyms

    * just

    Usage notes

    Beware that unjust and injustice use different prefixes (French injustice was borrowed into English, but injuste was not). injust'' is archaic and ''unjustice is obsolete.

    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.