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unsuited

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++un·suit·ed /ʌnˈsuːtəd, -ˈsjuː- $ -ˈsuː-/ adjective [not before noun]  1 not having the right qualities for a particular job or purpose 不合格的;不胜任的;不合适的unsuited to/for He was unsuited for the job. 他不适合干这份工作。 old school buildings unsuited to modern education 不适合现代教育的旧校舍2 British English two people who are unsuited are unlikely to have a successful romantic relationship because they have very different characters and interests 〔异性之间因性格不合、兴趣各异而〕不适合的,不般配的 SYN mismatched I now realize that Tom and I were totally unsuited. 我现在认识到我和汤姆完全不适合。
Examples from the Corpus
unsuitedAttendance is better than 21,000 a game in the SkyDome, a cavernous building unsuited for basketball.Temperamentally unsuited for compromise, Tatum went on the offensive.Mary says that he is unsuited for the clergy and will not marry him if he enters that field.She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself.Few disciples followed him, his purist rigour being unsuited to compromise or the political infighting which wracked the sectarian Left.The two of them seemed so entirely unsuited to each other that I quickly discarded the unbidden image of their marital bed.They also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties.Are these rules unsuited to modern medicine?unsuited to/forAttendance is better than 21,000 a game in the SkyDome, a cavernous building unsuited for basketball.If the truth be known, all too many of them are entirely unsuited for civilized life.The two of them seemed so entirely unsuited to each other that I quickly discarded the unbidden image of their marital bed.They also tend to be aesthetically unsuited to many older-style properties.Mary says that he is unsuited for the clergy and will not marry him if he enters that field.He was totally unsuited for the job.Certainly scientific approaches had come to be seen as unsuited to this project and therefore increasingly discarded.It was a technique which by its very nature was unsuited for use from the front opposition bench.totally unsuitedHe was totally unsuited for the job.She was totally unsuited to anything where she had to organize herself.Richard and I were totally unsuited, we cramped each other, preventing further growth, we were better apart.
un·suit·ed adjectiveChineseSyllable
a Corpus the having for qualities particular not right


unsuited
unsuited /ʌnˈsuːtəd, ʌnˈsuːtɪd, -ˈsjuː- $ -ˈsuː-/ adjective [not before noun]
1. not having the right qualities for a particular job or purpose
    unsuited to/for
    He was unsuited for the job.
    old school buildings unsuited to modern education
2. British English two people who are unsuited are unlikely to have a successful romantic relationship because they have very different characters and interests
   SYN  mismatched:
    I now realize that Tom and I were totally unsuited.


un·suit·edBrE /ʌnˈsuːtɪd/ 🔊, also /ʌnˈsjuːtɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ʌnˈsuːtɪd/ 🔊 adjective~ (to/for sth) | ~ (to do sth) not having the right or necessary qualities for sth 不合格的;不胜任的;不适宜的He is unsuited to academic work. 他不适合做学术工作。🔊🔊She was totally unsuited for the job. 她根本不能胜任这项工作。🔊🔊if two people are unsuited to each other they do not have the same interests, etc. and are therefore not likely to make a good couple (人)志趣不相投的,不相配的,不般配的 OPP suited