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Inappropriacy is the name for the quality of not being suitable — not right for this purpose, this place, this person, or this moment. The thing itself may be fine; it just does not fit here. We use it most about behaviour, clothes, and especially words: a joke, a question, a way of speaking. It is a formal noun, more at home in careful British writing and in language class than in the street. Though actually, a lot of people, especially in American English, would say inappropriateness instead and mean almost the same thing. Inappropriacy leans a little toward “wrong for the situation” (you would not say that to a boss, or at a funeral), rather than “bad in itself.” It does not mean the person is or unskilled. It means the fit is off.
不得體、不恰當(名詞;重點是「這個場合不適合」,不是東西本身壞)
組成From inappropriate + -cy. inappropriate is in- (not) + appropriate (suitable); -cy turns that into an abstract noun.
同家族的字
- inappropriatethe adjective this noun is built from
- appropriatethe positive form; in- turns it to “not”
- inappropriatelythe adverb
- inappropriatenessanother noun for the same quality; more common in everyday English
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inappropriacynoun
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inappropriateness.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。