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Inappropriateness is the ordinary noun for not being suitable or not being right in a particular situation. If is the slightly more academic twin, this is the one you will meet more often in everyday English, especially American English. We use it about comments, clothes, timing, and behaviour: the inappropriateness of phones at dinner, of a joke that went too far, of a gift that was too personal. Though actually it still names fit, not evil. A kind sentence can have inappropriateness if the moment is wrong. It is a little formal — in speech people often say “that was not appropriate” instead of naming the noun — but it is not rare, and students will see it in school rules and workplace writing.
不恰當、不得體(較常用的名詞說法)
組成From inappropriate + -ness. -ness is an old English ending (from Old English -nes) that turns an adjective into a noun for a quality.
同家族的字
- inappropriatethe adjective this noun is built from
- appropriatethe positive form
- inappropriatelythe adverb
- inappropriacya more formal, often British, noun with nearly the same meaning
原始詞典資料2 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。
inappropriatenessnoun
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The quality of being inappropriate; unsuitability.
- The station is seven miles from South Molton, and reference to the inappropriateness of its former name was made in the article on the naming of railway stations, by Mr. M. D. Greville, which appeared in the March issue.
- I suppose thatʼs what I first loved about Marpessa, her unabashed inappropriateness.
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The result of being inappropriate.
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。