misfit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Middle English fit? English fit English misfit From mis- + fit.
Meanings
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(archaic) An ill-fitting garment.
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.
1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
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A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
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.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 94:
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A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
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.
2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 ArticleThe MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
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
2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| misfits | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (38)
lv baltā vārna (a badly adjusted person) · el απροσάρμοστος (a badly adjusted person) · pl odmieniec (a badly adjusted person) · fi huonosti sopiva vaate (an ill-fitting garment) · be няўда́чнік (a badly adjusted person) · ca inadaptada (a badly adjusted person) · hy չհարմարված մարդ (a badly adjusted person) · es inadaptado (a badly adjusted person) · ru пло́хо сидя́щая оде́жда (an ill-fitting garment) · uk невда́ха (a badly adjusted person) · nl onaangepaste (a badly adjusted person) · ru неприспосо́бившийся челове́к (a badly adjusted person) · it inadatto (an ill-fitting garment) · de Aussenseiter (a badly adjusted person) · ca inadaptat (a badly adjusted person) · de Nichtangepasster (a badly adjusted person) · lt nepritapėlė (a badly adjusted person) · es desentono (failure to fit well, unsuitability) · es desajuste (failure to fit well, unsuitability) · fr inadapté (a badly adjusted person) · ru неуда́чник (a badly adjusted person) · de Unangepasster (a badly adjusted person) · pt esfarrapado (an ill-fitting garment) · lv baltais zvirbulis (a badly adjusted person) · cmn 不適應環境的人 /不适应环境的人 (a badly adjusted person) · de Außenseiter (a badly adjusted person) · bg неудачност (failure to fit well, unsuitability) · bg лошо скроена дреха (an ill-fitting garment) · pt desajustado (a badly adjusted person) · ru неужи́вшийся челове́к (a badly adjusted person) · de Nichtangepasste (a badly adjusted person) · fi sopeutumaton henkilö (a badly adjusted person) · it disadattato (a badly adjusted person) · lt nepritapėlis (a badly adjusted person) · pa ਕਜੋੜ (failure to fit well, unsuitability) · de Sonderling (a badly adjusted person) · ru неуда́чница (a badly adjusted person) · id orang canggung (a badly adjusted person)