unfitness

Lack of qualification

Unfitness is the state of being unsuitable or inadequate for a purpose.

Physical unfitness means poor health or conditioning: His unfitness for military service was obvious.

Unfitness for a role or task suggests lack of necessary qualities: The committee questioned her unfitness for the position.

The word often carries judgment—someone deemed unfit has been found wanting.

unsuitability

inadequacy

State of being insufficient

ineligibility · disqualification · mismatch · incongruity · impropriety · inapplicability · inaptness · wrongness · inadmissibility

incompetence

ineptitude

Lack of ability

inefficiency · unpreparedness · ineptness · clumsiness · amateurishness · bungling · maladroitness · awkwardness · deficiency · unskillfulness

physical

sedentary

Characterized by much sitting

deconditioned · unhealthy · weakness · frailty · fatigue · exhaustion · lethargy · debility · enervation · feebleness

weakness

frailty

Weakness of body

feebleness · enfeeblement · vulnerability · impotence · decrepitude · delicacy · prostration · asthenia · languor · weariness

illness

sickness

Bodily disorder or disease

affliction · morbidity · pathology · indisposition · unwellness · invalidism · infirmity · debilitation

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Opposites
physical condition

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Good physical shape

physical fitness · good health · healthiness · robustness · vigor

suitability/appropriateness

unfitnessfitness

Good physical shape

suitability · appropriateness · fittingness · aptness · suitableness

qualification/capability

unfitnessfitness

Good physical shape

ability · capability · competence · qualification · readiness

Family

fit, outfit, fitting, fitness, fitted, unfit, outfits, misfit, outfitted

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