Words and phrases that have a meaning related to infelicitous: (122 results)
Antonyms:
felicitous
Often used in the same context:
prolix, ungrammatical, ineloquent, tu quoque, tautological, inapt, adverbial, oxymoronic, adjectival, split infinitive, delphic, prepositional, polysyllabic, subjunctive, unpoetic, subjunctive mood, impolitic, inelegant, non sequitur, longwinded, tendentious, accusative, denotative, prefatory, denunciatory, syllogistic, lexicographical, jejune, unscholarly, hortatory, interrogative, waffly, rhetorical, mot juste, otiose, untranslatable, connotative, onomatopoetic, mealymouthed, nabokovian, deprecatory, pithier, parenthetical, indelicate, sophistic, aphoristic, terminological, rebarbative, ex cathedra, obtuse, overdetermined, abstract noun, grammatical, latinate, deprecating, contentless, jesuitical, hyperbolic, euphonious, apposite, verbose, felicitous, undiplomatic, assumptive, wordy, phrasal, misplaced modifier, auxiliary verb, euphemistic, overfamiliar, reductio ad absurdum, ambiguous, unsayable, sesquipedalian, pedantic, dangling modifier, unpublishable, nonliteral, facetious, pejorative, unuttered, exclamatory, intransitive, unstatesmanlike, colloquial, maladroit, unexceptionable, declarative sentence, sophomoric, alliterative, nonsensical, unobjectionable, ahistorical, risible, overhasty, declamatory, ad hominem, obiter dictum, inefficacious, trite, epigrammatic, attributive, idiomatic, innocuous, equivocal, cryptic, misleading, evocative, parenthetic, allusive, analogous, apt
Appears in the definition of:
ineptly, infelicitously
Synonyms:
Also try:awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inept, unfortunate, unhappy
— Nouns for infelicitous: title, phrase, expression, choice, term, use, expressions, reputation, speech, word, attempt, more...
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