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  • 121inapplicable — I adjective alien, at variance, clashing, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, divergent, foreign, ill adapted, impertinent, improper, inadmissible, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurable, incompatible, incongruent, incongruous,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 122Utilitarians (The early) — The early utilitarians Bentham and James Mill G.L.Williams Jeremy Bentham was born in 1748 in London; his prosperous father, a lawyer who became wealthy from property rather than the law, planned out for his son a brilliant legal career. After an …

    History of philosophy

  • 123SHETLAND —    or ZETLAND    (29), a group of over 100 islands, islets, and skerries, of which 29 are inhabited, forming the northernmost county of Scotland, lying out in the Atlantic, NNE. of the Orkneys; Mainland (378 sq. m.), Fell, and Unst are the… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 124Ardchattan —    ARDCHATTAN, a parish, in the district of Lorn, county of Argyll, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Oban; containing 2421 inhabitants, of whom 960 are in the quoad sacra parish of Muckairn. This place is supposed to have derived its name from Catan, who… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 125Collessie —    COLLESSIE, a parish, in the district of Cupar, county of Fife; including the villages of Edenton, Giffordton, Kinloch, Ladybank, and Monkston; and containing 1346 inhabitants, of whom 210 are in the village of Collessie, 5½ miles (W.) from… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 126Dumfries —    DUMFRIES, a royal burgh, county town, port, and the seat of a presbytery and synod, in the county of Dumfries; comprising the parishes of St. Michael and New Church, with the villages of Georgetown, Locharbriggs, Lochthorn, and part of Kelton; …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 127unsuitable — a. 1. Unfit, inappropriate, unsuited, ill adapted. 2. Improper, unbecoming, unfitting, incongruous, out of keeping, out of character, out of place, in bad taste …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 128inappropriate — adj 1. unsuitable, unfitting, unbefitting, unmeet, inapt, inapposite; unsuited, unfit, ill adapted, incompatible, uncongenial, incommodious; incongruous, inconsistent, out of keeping, out of character; disproportionate, inequitable, unfair,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder