inappropriateness

Other forms of inappropriateness

plural

inappropriatenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inappropriateness

What does inappropriateness mean?

inappropriateness means "inappropriate conduct". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inappropriateness?

inappropriateness has 7 syllables: i-nap-pro-pri-a-te-ness. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for inappropriateness?

Close synonyms include wrongness, unworthiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inappropriateness?

The recorded antonyms are appropriateness, appropriateness.

Is inappropriateness a common word?

inappropriateness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.