misfit

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ fit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɪsfɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

misfit (plural misfits)

1. (now rare) An ill-fitting garment.
2. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 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.

3. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
   • 2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 [1]]:

     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.

   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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɪsfɪt/

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:outcast

Translations

an ill-fitting garment

• Finnish: huonosti sopiva vaate
• Italian: inadatto (it)

• Portuguese: esfarrapado (pt)
• Russian: плохо сидящая одежда (plóxo sidjáščaja odéžda) f

a badly adjusted person

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不適應環境的人 (cmn), 不适应环境的人 (cmn) (bù shìyìng huánjìng de rén)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sopeutumaton henkilö
• French: inadapté (fr) m
• German: Nichtangepasster (de) m, Nichtangepasste (de) f
• Greek: απροσάρμοστος (el) (aprosármostos) m 
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: disadattato (it)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Latvian: baltā vārna (lv) f (figuratively), baltais zvirbulis (lv) m (figuratively)
• Lithuanian: nepritapėlis (lt) m, nepritapėlė (lt) f
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: desajustado (pt)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: неприспособившийся / неужившийся (человек) (neprisposóbivšijsja / neužívšijsja (čelovék)), неудачник (ru) (neudáčnik) m , неудачница (ru) (neudáčnica) f 
• Spanish: desfasado (es), inadaptado (es) m
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

misfit (third-person singular simple present misfits, present participle misfitting, simple past and past participle misfitted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fit badly.

   His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /mɪsˈfɪt/

Translations

to fit badly

• Finnish: sopia huonosti
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: netikti (lt), nesiderinti (lt), nederėti (lt)

• Portuguese: encaixar (pt) mal (pt)
• Russian: не подходить (ne podxodítʹ), плохо сидеть (plóxo sidétʹ)