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Meanings of inapplicable in English

Not capable of being applied.

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Usage of inapplicable in English
1
In the present instance I am afraid your rule is inapplicable.
The Trampling of the Lilies
2
Previous core needle biopsies were useless or inapplicable in all patients.
Pubmed
3
If it grows, the method of fixed alternatives must be inapplicable to it.
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
4
The Kiint found a solution, the Laymil, too -for all it's inapplicable.
The Naked God
5
Bring home no foreign fancies which are inapplicable to our state of society.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
6
Their mental store was limited to theories, often excellent but inapplicable to reality.
Feminist dot com
7
Overall, prisoners consider methadone treatment inapplicable to their pre-release planning.
Pubmed
8
Continually something is becoming superfluous, inapplicable, or wanting in the work of the past.
Heart of Man
9
So the word was as offensive and insolent as it was foolish and inapplicable.
The Marquis of Lossie
10
All that was rambling and inapplicable in her wild declamation they consigned to oblivion.
Lives of the Necromancers
11
Unfortunately, in the great majority of cases, this touchstone for species is wholly inapplicable.
Lectures and Essays
12
In such a state of things, ordinary rules are inapplicable.
Practical Essays
13
The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
14
Without exception, these have been proved to be altogether inapplicable.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 / Volume 18, New Series, O...
15
His legislation, therefore, was no vague collection of inapplicable principles.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
16
Reckoning by centuries is, of course, inapplicable to pure myth.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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