inapplicable

From in- + applicable.

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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, ${\displaystyle y(\cdot )}$ is not single-valued at any price vector allowing for nonzero production, making Hotelling's lemma inapplicable at these prices.

• unapplicable

• 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/

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inapplicable (plural inapplicables)

1. inapplicable

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