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unpertinent

unpertinent adjective: irrelevant.

Adjective

unpertinent (comparative more unpertinent, superlative most unpertinent)

  1. (obsolete) Irrelevant.
    • […] and so to me it is unpertinent to the purpose, and not concludent.1658, Samuel Rutherford, A Survey of the Survey of that Summe of Church Discipline, ..., page 3

Forms of unpertinent

comparativemore unpertinent
superlativemost unpertinent

Origin of unpertinent

un- + pertinent

Questions about unpertinent

What does unpertinent mean?
Unpertinent means irrelevant.
What part of speech is unpertinent?
Unpertinent is an adjective.

Words near unpertinent in the dictionary

  1. unpersuasion
  2. unpersuasive
  3. unpersuasively
  4. unpersuasiveness
  5. unpertaining
  6. unpertinent
  7. unperturbability
  8. unperturbable
  9. unperturbably
  10. unperturbed
  11. unperturbedly

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