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

Synonyms:

unsuitable, unimportant, inapposite, relevant, marginal, undesirable, irrelative, neither here nor there, academic, beside the point

extrinsic, inappropriate, impertinent, outer, extraneous, dissociated, nonessential, estranged, eerie, separated, foreign, extraterrestrial, disconnected, outlandish, strange, unaffiliated, foreign-born, other, alien, immaterial, detached, parenthetical, outside, removed, segregated, inadmissible, separate, exotic, unessential, unallied, disjoint, external, irrelevant, unrelated, disaffiliated

disenfranchised, remote

inconsistent, unsuited

Usage examples:

• But although she could not see her, the fir- wood was certainly the likeliest place for her daughter to be in; and the figure she employed was not in the least inapplicable to Meg's usual mode of wandering through the trees, that operation being commonly performed in the most erratic manner possible. - "David Elginbrod", George MacDonald.
• And the interesting thing is that when we come to his philosophy, all these three phrases are quite peculiarly inapplicable. - "George Bernard Shaw", Gilbert K. Chesterton.
• For equally obvious reasons the simple Method of Difference is inapplicable to tracing cause and effect in communities. - "Logic, Inductive and Deductive", William Minto.