Definition of Inapplicable

1. Adjective. Not capable of being applied. "Rules inapplicable to day students"

Exact synonyms: Unsuitable
Similar to: Irrelevant
Derivative terms: Inapplicability, Unsuitability

Definition of Inapplicable

1. a. Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case.

Definition of Inapplicable

1. Adjective. Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inapplicable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inapplicable

inanition fever
inanitions
inanity
inantherate
inapparency
inapparent
inapparent infection
inapparently
inappealable
inappeasable
inappellability
inappellable
inappetence
inappetences
inapplicability
inapplicable (current term)
inapplicableness
inapplicably
inapplication
inapposite
inappositely
inappositeness
inappreciable
inappreciably
inappreciation
inappreciative
inapprehensibility
inapprehensible
inapprehension
inapprehensive

Literary usage of Inapplicable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Homicide c=>102—Statutory definition *>f Justifiable homicide inapplicable, where self- defense relied on. "Section 75 of the Penal Code Is not applicable ..."

2. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Amotion and Disfranchisement; the Two distinguished; English Decisions as to Disfranchisement inapplicable in this Country. — The elementary works treat of ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"... but inclined • to think it would be otherwise, where from circumstances not moving from the legatee himself the description is inapplicable; as where a ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"case waa inapplicable, because it held in the subsequent cases that there had been in those eases a survey of the land under water at the United States. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Intercorporate Relations by Walter Chadwick Noyes (1909)
"Rule of Liability inapplicable to Consolidation after Foreclosure Sale. — The rule that a consolidated corporation is liable for the debts of its ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... of the government to take possession of the property followed thereupon. provisions of the English law regarding charities as inapplicable to America, ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... purpose in question as being for superstitious uses, has always been treated as inapplicable. The validity of such bequests was maintained in an ..."

8. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace (1855)
"The proviso has been ht:ld to be inapplicable to the case of an unstamped promissory Note, Jones v. Ryder, 4 M. & W. 32. IN order to understand how far a ..."

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