noun
Meaning 1
An ill-fitting garment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
misfit
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈmɪs.fɪt/
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rhymes with -ɪt
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UK: /mɪsˈfɪt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.
- The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To fit badly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Examples
- His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.
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noun
Meaning 5
someone unable to adapt to their circumstances
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: anomaly, unusual person
Narrower terms: anthropoid, ape, jerk, dork, addle-head, addlehead, loon, birdbrain
History
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- English fit English misfit From mis- + fit.
Across languages
Translations
52 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лошо скроена дреха (lošo skroena dreha) — an ill-fitting garment
- Finnish: huonosti sopiva vaate — an ill-fitting garment
- Italian: inadatto — an ill-fitting garment
- Portuguese: esfarrapado — an ill-fitting garment
- Russian: пло́хо сидя́щая оде́жда (plóxo sidjáščaja odéžda) — an ill-fitting garment
- Bulgarian: неудачност (neudačnost) — failure to fit well, unsuitability
- Punjabi: ਕਜੋੜ (kajoṛ) — failure to fit well, unsuitability
- Spanish: desajuste — failure to fit well, unsuitability
- Spanish: desentono — failure to fit well, unsuitability
- Armenian: չհարմարված մարդ (čʻharmarvac mard) — a badly adjusted person
- Belarusian: няўда́чнік (njawdáčnik) — a badly adjusted person
- Catalan: inadaptat — a badly adjusted person
- Catalan: inadaptada — a badly adjusted person
- Chinese Mandarin: 不適應環境的人 /不适应环境的人 (bù shìyìng huánjìng de rén) — a badly adjusted person
- Dutch: onaangepaste — a badly adjusted person
- Finnish: sopeutumaton henkilö — a badly adjusted person
- French: inadapté — a badly adjusted person
- German: Nichtangepasster — a badly adjusted person
- German: Nichtangepasste — a badly adjusted person
- German: Sonderling — a badly adjusted person
- German: Aussenseiter — a badly adjusted person
- German: Unangepasster — a badly adjusted person
- German: Außenseiter — a badly adjusted person
- Greek: απροσάρμοστος (aprosármostos) — a badly adjusted person
- Indonesian: orang canggung — a badly adjusted person
- Italian: disadattato — a badly adjusted person
- Latvian: baltā vārna — a badly adjusted person
- Latvian: baltais zvirbulis — a badly adjusted person
- Lithuanian: nepritapėlis — a badly adjusted person
- Lithuanian: nepritapėlė — a badly adjusted person
- Polish: odmieniec — a badly adjusted person
- Portuguese: desajustado — a badly adjusted person
- Russian: неприспосо́бившийся челове́к (neprisposóbivšijsja čelovék) — a badly adjusted person
- Russian: неужи́вшийся челове́к (neužívšijsja čelovék) — a badly adjusted person
- Russian: неуда́чник (neudáčnik) — a badly adjusted person
- Russian: неуда́чница (neudáčnica) — a badly adjusted person
- Spanish: inadaptado — a badly adjusted person
- Ukrainian: невда́ха (nevdáxa) — a badly adjusted person
- Bulgarian: не подхождам (ne podhoždam) — to fit badly
- Czech: nehodit se k — to fit badly
- Czech: nepasovat — to fit badly
- Finnish: sopia huonosti — to fit badly
- Lithuanian: netikti — to fit badly
- Lithuanian: nesiderinti — to fit badly
- Lithuanian: nederėti — to fit badly
- Portuguese: encaixar mal — to fit badly
- Russian: не подходи́ть (ne podxodítʹ) — to fit badly
- Russian: пло́хо сиде́ть (plóxo sidétʹ) — to fit badly
- Spanish: sentar mal — to fit badly
- Spanish: encajar mal — to fit badly
- Spanish: desentonar — to fit badly
- Spanish: desencajar — to fit badly