Definition of Unfit

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Definition of Unfit

Unfit

To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

Not fit; unsuitable.

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Unfit Quotations

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.
James Allen

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
Thomas Babington

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
Joseph Heller

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
Sophocles

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Willie Stargell

Unfit Translations

unfit in French is invalide, inapte
unfit in German is ungeeignet, untauglich
unfit in Italian is inadatto, inabile al lavoro, disadatto
unfit in Latin is indignus
unfit in Spanish is incapaz, echadizo

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