(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.
Thesaurus Entries
Doric, bad, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, careless, clumsy, coarse, crude, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, faulty, futile, graceless, gross, harsh, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, late, loose, low, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistimed, off base, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, outlandish, premature, rude, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, tasteless, too late, too soon, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, uncourtly, uncouth, undesirable, undignified, uneuphonious, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unfortunate, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unpolished, unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrefined, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, untimely, untoward, unwise, vulgar, wrong
