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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
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  • 1.3 Adjective
    * 1.3.1 Synonyms
    * 1.3.2 Derived terms
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• 2 French
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  • 2.3 Adjective
  • 2.4 Further reading

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From in- + applicable.

inapplicable (comparative more inapplicable, superlative most inapplicable)

1. Not applicable; that does not apply or cannot be applied; unsuitable or irrelevant.
   The argument is inapplicable to the case.
   • 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 141:
     In this case, y ( ⋅ ) {\displaystyle y(\cdot )} is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.

• unapplicable

• inapplicableness

• inapplicably

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inapplicable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• “inapplicable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From in- +‎ applicable.

• IPA(key): /i.na.pli.kabl/

inapplicable (plural inapplicables)

1. inapplicable

• “inapplicable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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