not be cut out for sth
Definition
C2 to not be the right type of person for something: I'm not cut out for an office job.Unsuitable and unacceptable
(Definition of not be cut out for sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Unsuitable and unacceptable, but you might be interested in these topics from the Right and wrong topic area:
- Accurate and exact
- Approximate
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Wanting everything to be right
- Wrong
Browse the Dictionary
-
not be all fun and games idiom
-
not be all it's cracked up to be idiom
-
not be as black as you are painted idiom
-
not be beyond the wit of man/sb idiom
-
not be born yesterday idiom
- not be cut out for sth idiom
-
not be in sb's vocabulary idiom
-
not be in the business of sth idiom
-
not be in the same league idiom
-
not be just a pretty face idiom
-
not be on speaking terms idiom
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- amiss adjective
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond the pale idiom
- extravagant adjective
- extremism noun
- inappropriate adjective
- inapt adjective
- incorrect adjective
- indecent adjective (NOT SUITABLE)
- ineligible adjective
- misplaced adjective
- n/a
- no room for sth idiom
- no-no noun
- not cricket idiom
- unfortunate adjective (NOT SUITABLE)
- unjustifiable adjective
- unjustified adjective
- unseemly adjective
- unsuitable adjective
Topic:
Unsuitable and unacceptable
Our dictionaries
Word of the Day
gesticulate
to make movements with your hands or arms, to express something or to emphasize what you are saying
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
