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unappropriately

unappropriately is the obsolete form of inappropriately.

Meaning of inappropriately

Adverb

inappropriately (comparative more inappropriately, superlative most inappropriately)

  1. In an inappropriate manner.
    • behave inappropriately

Forms of unappropriately

comparativemore unappropriately
superlativemost unappropriately

Origin of unappropriately

From unappropriate + -ly.

Questions about unappropriately

What is unappropriately the obsolete form of?
Unappropriately is the obsolete form of inappropriately.

Words near unappropriately in the dictionary

  1. unapproached
  2. unapproaching
  3. unappropriable
  4. unappropriate
  5. unappropriated
  6. unappropriately
  7. unappropriateness
  8. unappropriates
  9. unappropriating
  10. unappropriation
  11. unappropriations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unappropriately (page history and authors); inappropriately (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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