unfitness

Other forms of unfitness

plural

unfitnesses·

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 unfitness

What does unfitness mean?

unfitness means "poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfitness?

unfitness has 3 syllables and divides as un-fit-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unfitness?

Close synonyms include softness, inability. 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 unfitness?

The recorded antonyms are fitness, fitness.

Is unfitness a common word?

unfitness 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.