misfit
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK, noun) IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.fɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (UK, verb) IPA(key): /mɪsˈfɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪt
Noun
[edit]misfit (plural misfits)
- (now rare) An ill-fitting garment.
- 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Mr Toots’s legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed, he feels misfits, and sees wrinkles, in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co., and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots.
- A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 94:
- And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him.
- A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
- 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
- Do you ever feel like a misfit?
Everything inside you is dark and twisted
Oh, but it's okay to be different
'Cause baby, so am I
- 2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 Article:
- Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
Synonyms
[edit]- (badly adjusted person): See also Thesaurus:outcast or Thesaurus:maverick
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an ill-fitting garment
failure to fit well, unsuitability
a badly adjusted person
|
Verb
[edit]misfit (third-person singular simple present misfits, present participle misfitting, simple past and past participle misfitted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fit badly.
- His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.
Translations
[edit]to fit badly
|
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with mis-
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪt
- Rhymes:English/ɪt/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with rare senses
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with usage examples
- English heteronyms