31 January 2015

infelicitous

[in-fuh-lis-i-tuh s]

adjective
1. inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos:
an infelicitous remark.
2. not felicitous, happy, or fortunate; unhappy.

Origin
1825-1835; in-3+ felicitous

Related forms

infelicitously, adverb
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Examples from the web for infelicitous

– The question for this debate is at best infelicitous and at worse misleading.
– On such infelicitous systems, sockets and pipes are already opened in binary mode, and there is currently no way to turn that off.

Anagram

elicit fusion
oils unfit ice
cuisine of lit
incite if soul

Today’s aphorism

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

– Martin Luther King Jr

On this day

31 January 1606 – death of Guy Fawkes, English soldier and one of the masterminds behind the failed ‘Gunpowder Plot’ to blow up English Parliament in an effort to assassinate King James 1 and VI of Scotland. Born 13 April 1570.

31 January 1961 – Ham the Astrochimp, returns safely to Earth after completing a NASA mission into outer space. HAM is an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Centre, which was located at the Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.

31 January 1991 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in Moscow.