Part 5798

<h1>Inexpected</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pect"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>in-</ets> not + <ets>expected</ets>: cf. L. <ets>inexspectatus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Unexpected.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Inexpectedly</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pect"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Unexpectedly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Inexpectedness</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pect"ed*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Unexpectedness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Inexpedience, Inexpediency</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw><hw>In`ex*pe"di*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>In`ex*pe"di*en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; <as>as, the <ex>inexpedience</ex> of some measures</as>.</def>

<blockquote>It is not the rigor but the <b>inexpediency</b> of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inexpedient</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pe"di*ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; <as>as, what is expedient at one time may be <ex>inexpedient</ex> at another</as>.</def>

<blockquote>If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly <b>inexpedient</b> to use those ceremonies. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Unwise; impolitic; imprudent; indiscreet; unprofitable; inadvisable; disadvantageous.</syn>

<h1>Inexpediently</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pe"di*ent*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Not <?/<?/pediently; unfitly.</def>

<h1>Inexpensive</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pen"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not expensive; cheap.</def>

<h1>Inexperience</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pe"ri*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>inexperientia</ets>, cf. F. <ets>inexp\'82rience</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Experience</er>.]</ety> <def>Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; <as>as, the <ex>inexperience</ex> of youth</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Failings which are incident to youth and <b>inexperience</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from <b>inexperience</b> of the world, and ignorance of mankind. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Inexperienced</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pe"ri*enced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not having experience unskilled.</def> "<i>Inexperienced</i> youth."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<h1>Inexpert</h1> <Xpage=757>

<hw>In`ex*pert"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>inexpertus</ets> inexperienced: cf. F. <ets>inexpert</ets>. See <er>In-</er> not, and <er>Expert</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Destitute of experience or of much experience.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>