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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose.
  2. n. One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make, as a garment, etc., of a wrong size.
  2. To supply with something that does not fit or is not suitable.
  3. n. A wrong or bad fit; something, as a suit of clothes, that fits badly.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An ill-fitting garment.
  2. n. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
  3. n. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
  4. v. transitive, intransitive To fit badly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act or the state of fitting badly
  2. n. Something that fits badly, as a garment.
  3. n. A person who does not fit in comfortably with the surrounding situation or society; one who cannot conform or adjust to the circumstances in which he lives.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

Etymologies

  1. From mis- +‎ fit. (Wiktionary)

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  • bilby Dennis, no misfit can act if Simon sinned. Oct 18, 2008

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