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From mis- + fit.
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misfit (plural misfits)
- (now rare) An ill-fitting garment.
- 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.
- 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.
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A badly adjusted person
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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.
- The car's bumper was misfit in color.
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