inexpedient Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective not suitable or advisable
    • an inexpedient tactic
  2. adjective satellite not appropriate to the purpose
    unwise.

WordNet

In`ex*pe"di*ent adjective
Definitions
  1. Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another.
    If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient to use those ceremonies. Bp. Burnet.
    Syn. -- Unwise; impolitic; imprudent; indiscreet; unprofitable; inadvisable; disadvantageous.

Webster 1913