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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
inapt is an adjective meaning "not elegant or graceful in expression". It carries one recorded sense.
not elegant or graceful in expression
“an awkward prose style”
“a clumsy apology”
“his cumbersome writing style”
“if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inapt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.