unsuitability

Other forms of unsuitability

plural

unsuitabilities·

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 unsuitability

What does unsuitability mean?

unsuitability means "the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose".

How many syllables are in unsuitability?

unsuitability has 7 syllables: un-su-i-ta-bi-li-ty. The stress falls on "bi".

What is another word for unsuitability?

Close synonyms include unsuitableness, ineptness. 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 unsuitability?

The recorded antonyms are suitability.

Is unsuitability a common word?

unsuitability 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.