ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Unsuit

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Unsuit is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit.

(intransitive) To take off a suit.
(transitive) To dismiss the legal suit of (a plaintiff)
A swimsuit made of cloth that allows through UVB rays so that the wearer can tan through the suit.
A legal suit that is dismissed by the judge.

Nothing untoward happens to him, so he unsuits.

Drooble also unsuits, more slowly than his Captain, and follows him as he stomps impatiently towards the bridge.

I swear the country's got warmer since the Great War. It makes men lazy, it makes them incompetent. It unsuits them to empire.

Being too tall would unsuit the person concerned from, say, being a bus-conductor in a situation where most buses have low ceilings!

Related dictionary entries include ill-sorted, mismatched, mismated, incompatible, ill-suited, unfit.

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