also: ふてっかく
disqualification; unfitness; noncompliance
Refers to the state of not meeting required standards, rules, or qualifications, often in legal, official, or formal contexts.
He was judged disqualified due to the age limit.
This product is noncompliant with safety standards.
不適切 means 'improper' for a given context, while 不適格 specifically means 'unqualified' or 'ineligible' due to lacking required qualifications, and the shared 不適 prefix can cause learners to mix them up.
existing nonconforming building
Standard kanji spelling.
Colloquial contracted reading; rarely written.
Compound of 不 (fu, 'not') + 適格 (tekikaku, 'qualified, eligible'). The reading ふてっかく is a colloquial contraction.