noun
1. the quality or state of lacking merit or value
• Ant: ↑worthiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑unworthy
• Hyponyms:
↑baseness, ↑sordidness, ↑contemptibility, ↑despicableness, ↑despicability, ↑shamefulness, ↑disgracefulness, ↑ignominiousness
2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting
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he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person
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his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness
• Syn: ↑inappropriateness
• Ant: ↑appropriateness (for: ↑inappropriateness)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑inappropriate (for: ↑inappropriateness)
• Hypernyms: ↑unsuitability, ↑unsuitableness, ↑ineptness
• Hyponyms: ↑inaptness, ↑inappositeness, ↑infelicity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.