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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
Conrad Black

Meaning of "infelicitous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INFELICITOUS

infelicitous  [ˌɪnfɪˈlɪsɪtəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INFELICITOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Infelicitous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INFELICITOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of infelicitous in the English dictionary

The definition of infelicitous in the dictionary is not felicitous; unfortunate. Other definition of infelicitous is inappropriate or unsuitable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INFELICITOUS


acetous
ˈæsɪtəs
apparatus
ˌæpəˈreɪtəs
comitatus
ˌkɒmɪˈteɪtəs
complicitous
kəmˈplɪsɪtəs
duplicitous
djuːˈplɪsɪtəs
emeritus
ɪˈmɛrɪtəs
felicitous
fɪˈlɪsɪtəs
hiatus
haɪˈeɪtəs
impetus
ˈɪmpɪtəs
necessitous
nɪˈsɛsɪtəs
oversolicitous
ˌəʊvəsəˈlɪsɪtəs
situs
ˈsaɪtəs
solicitous
səˈlɪsɪtəs
status
ˈsteɪtəs
stratus
ˈstreɪtəs
Tacitus
ˈtæsɪtəs
tinnitus
ˈtɪnɪtəs
Titus
ˈtaɪtəs
ubiquitous
juːˈbɪkwɪtəs
unsolicitous
ˌʌnsəˈlɪsɪtəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INFELICITOUS

infective
infectively
infectiveness
infectivity
infector
infecund
infecundity
infeft
infeftment
infelicities
infelicitously
infelicity
infelt
infer
inferable
inferably
infere
inference
inferencing
inferential

WORDS THAT END LIKE INFELICITOUS

acclivitous
alacritous
ancipitous
calamitous
circuitous
compositous
declivitous
fatuitous
fortuitous
gratuitous
halitous
heteroclitous
iniquitous
momentous
obliquitous
precipitous
pyritous
serendipitous
spiritous
strepitous
vomitous

Synonyms and antonyms of infelicitous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «infelicitous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INFELICITOUS

Find out the translation of infelicitous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of infelicitous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «infelicitous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

倒霉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poco feliz
570 millions of speakers

English

infelicitous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाकामयाब
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير موفقة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

несчастный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

infeliz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেমানান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

malheureux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Infelicitous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unglücklich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不適切な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

infelicitous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Infelicitous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khổ sở
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மகிழ்ச்சியற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अननुभवी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tâlihsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

infelice
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

infelicitous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нещасний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nefericit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατυχής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongelukkig gekies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

olyckliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

infelicitous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of infelicitous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INFELICITOUS»

The term «infelicitous» is normally little used and occupies the 126.119 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INFELICITOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «infelicitous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «infelicitous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about infelicitous

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QUOTES WITH «INFELICITOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word infelicitous.
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Conrad Black
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INFELICITOUS»

Discover the use of infelicitous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to infelicitous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality
semantic perspective to model meaning shifts involved in infelicitous combinations. Finally, Section 7 summarizes the main findings of the paper. 2. Types of infelicitous combinations and their outcomes: Some illustrations Note that since ICs ...
Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop, Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov, 2009
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Ritual in Narrative: The Dynamics of Feasting, Mourning, and ...
L. Austin.70 He uses Austin's distinction between felicitous and infelicitous speech acts to analyze ritual. This allows Grimes to avoid the narrow functionalist implications of viewing problematic ritual as having simply succeeded or failed ...
David Pearson Wright, 2001
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The Constitution of Power: A Theoretical Analysis of Power, ...
When an actor intends to reproduce structures or meaning but other actors treat the intended meaning as infelicitous, there is a failure in structural reproduction. Structural constraint is imposed by actors upon each other by treating the action of ...
Mark Haugaard, 1997
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Category Mistakes
However, the sentence is nevertheless infelicitous. The familiar Gricean explanation of its infelicity is that although the sentence has the same truth— conditional content as 'Jane is happy and satisfied', the use of 'but' generates a conventional ...
Ofra Magidor, 2013
5
Infelicitous Incorporations: Ecology, Indigestibility, and ...
Examples are culled from the texts of Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends, Herman Melville's “Poor Man's Pudding“ and “Rich Man's Crumbs“, Walt Whitman's “This Compost“, and certain texts from the Davy Crockett Almanacs, ...
Bethany Ann Beaupain, 2012
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Existence: Semantics and Syntax
The incidence of informants rejecting these sentences as infelicitous is considerably lower than in the case of (2a,b). Knowing that there are no Swiss matadors, people don't insist on checking the drawing room before concluding that (3a) is ...
Ileana Comorovski, Klaus von Heusinger, 2008
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A Companion to Analytic Philosophy
Corresponding to the true/false dimension for assessing constatives is the felicitous/ infelicitous dimension for assessing performatives. And third, the performative utterance is an action, a doing, whereas the constative is a statement or a ...
A. P. Martinich, E. David Sosa, 2008
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Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English
That is, information that is new to the discourse is nonetheless infelicitous in postverbal position in an existential there-sentence if it is known to the hearer, as in (121): (121) a. President Clinton appeared at the podium accompanied by three ...
Betty J. Birner, Gregory L. Ward, 1998
9
Mind, Brain and Narrative
Narrative use of sound play, infelicitous anaphora and repeated morphs for creative purposes As we have indicated, the same linguistic features can be found in both inadvertent infelicitous foregrounding or foregrounding used for creative ...
Anthony J. Sanford, Catherine Emmott, 2012
10
The Development of Null Vs. Overt Subject Pronoun Expression ...
As in Maratsos' experiment, four-year-olds produced more infelicitous definite NPs when objects were visible. Whereas the three-year-olds in Maratsos' study performed better when objects were hidden, in Karmiloff-Smith's study, this same  ...
Naomi Lapidus Shin, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INFELICITOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term infelicitous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Different Views of Fashionable Lives - The New York Times
Entire pages are spent on how she grows out various infelicitous haircuts. When a surgeon must cut off a malignancy on Ms. Brooks's nose ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Greece again: Yes
Better than Orestes, Jason and the Argonaut and Theseus together, the tale of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the Infelicitous fighting ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»
3
Jack Kelly: Don't blame Trump
Criticism of his infelicitous remark is hypocritical coming from those who've asserted or implied Republicans who seek stronger border security ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
4
America's great divide: The rule-followers vs. the do-gooders
The purpose or intent of the law's drafters could be inferred and used to correct the infelicitous language. Roberts' willingness to temper pure ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
5
Language of Desire Review – Does it Really Work?
Language of desire is developed even for the restful and most shy women to explore dirty talk without feeling clunky, infelicitous and awkward. «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
6
Beware claims Greeks have 'bested' the EU
... and the overall attitude conveyed by Taoiseach Enda Kenny, may be infelicitous in both cases. But the overall reality is undeniable: Ireland ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
7
Q & A's danger of irritating the conservative in anybody
It took, for instance, a visiting American theologian to say on Q&A that George Brandis's infelicitous remark about the right to be a bigot was in ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
8
Women In Revolt
These infelicitous rhetorical acts were usually committed by Litchfield's reigning bull dagger, Big Boo (Lea DeLaria), who butchsplained some ... «Artforum, Jun 15»
9
It's Liberal vs. New Democrat as de facto campaign begins
Trudeau's head-scratcher of a spontaneous comment was likely just another of his infelicitous, unplanned blurts. And the NDP, perhaps wisely, ... «rabble.ca, Jun 15»
10
'Lurid & Cute,' by Adam Thirlwell
This revelation brings intense guilt and paranoia, but they are short-lived. Soon, our catatonic, hopelessly infelicitous young man returns home ... «SFGate, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Infelicitous [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/infelicitous>. May 2024 ».
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