unfitness

1. 1.

   poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)

   Synonymssoftness

   Antonymsfitness

   Broaderill health

   Narrowerinfirmitydisability
2. 2.

   lacking the power to perform

   Synonymsinability

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerunadaptabilityinsensitivityincompetenceincapabilityinsufficiency
3. 3.

   the quality of not being suitable

   “the judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment”

   Antonymsfitness

   Broaderunsuitability

   Narrowerdisqualification

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: un-fit-ness. The stress falls on "un".

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.