Definition of "unfit"

unfit

/ʌnˈfɪt/

adjective
comparative unfitter or more unfit, superlative unfittest or most unfit
1. Not fit; not having the correct requirements.
2. Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.
3. (often with for) Unsuitable for a particular purpose.
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  Sadly, the station that proves to be the busiest - Blackpool Pleasure Beach - is unfit for purpose. It possesses a tiny canopy back from the platform that offers little in the way of shelter or amenities, other than a couple of benches.
  2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 56
verb
third-person singular simple present unfits, present participle unfitting, simple past and past participle unfitted
1. To make unfit; to render unsuitable, spoil, disqualify.
  Quotations
  He [...] added that he was fearful Christianity, or rather Christians, had unfitted him for ascending the pure and undefiled throne of thirty pagan Kings before him.
  1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley
  These preoccupations unfitted the soldiers for the defence of the frontier, and permitted vigorous incursions of Germans form the north and Persians from the east.
  1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30
  This life entirely unfits you for general practice.
  2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, page 403
  The Select Committee on Transport (Metropolitan Area) of 1919 concluded the following: "Trains were crowded not merely to excess, but almost to danger point. The crush in the 'peak hours' not only overloaded public conveyances, but subjected travellers - particularly the old, the feeble and women - to an amount of suffering, the effects of which often unfitted them temporarily for their ordinary duties."
  2020 April 8, Dr David Turner, “How railway staff were conduits and victims of a pandemic”, in Rail, page 31

Definition of "unfit"

unfit

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