unfit

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/ʌnˈfɪt/

adjective · verb

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The latter engine was found unfit to take its return working at 5.35 p.m. from Luton, and No. 45616, Malta G.C., was provided by Kentish Town as substitute.
1953 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 284
On September 7, 1993, Sharon Bottoms lost custody of her two-year-old son to her own mother. A Virginia judge found that her sexual relationship with her lover was immoral and rendered her an unfit parent.
1993 October, Nancy D. Polikoff, “Lesbian And Gay Parenting: What's At Stake?”, in Gay Community News, page 3
Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN
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, →OCLC
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

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From un- + fit.