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Definition of Infelicitous

1. Adjective. Not appropriate in application; defective. "The infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"

2. Adjective. Marked by or producing unhappiness. "Unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"

Definition of Infelicitous

1. a. Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous description; infelicitous words.

Definition of Infelicitous

1. Adjective. Unhappy or unfortunate. ¹

2. Adjective. Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infelicitous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infelicitous

infectors infects infecund infecundity infecundous infeeble infeebled infeebles infeebling infeed

infeft infefted infefting infefts infelicities infelicitous (current term) infelicitously infelicitousness infelicity infelonious

infelt infeodation infeodations infeoff infeoffed infeoffing infeoffment infeoffments infeoffs infer

Literary usage of Infelicitous

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

1. Common Sense about Women by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1881)
"AN infelicitous EPITHET. " The ladies actively working to secure the co-operation of their sex in caucuses and citizens' conventions are not actuated by ..."

2. The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson: An Historical Biography Based on Mss by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1889)
"... Nicolas's Eulogy of the trenchant Essay—His more comprehensive and effectual Vindication of the same Proceedings—His infelicitous Memorandum touching ..."

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