Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose.
- 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
- To make, as a garment, etc., of a wrong size.
- To supply with something that does not fit or is not suitable.
- n. A wrong or bad fit; something, as a suit of clothes, that fits badly.
Wiktionary
- n. An ill-fitting garment.
- n. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
- n. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
- v. transitive, intransitive To fit badly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or the state of fitting badly
- n. Something that fits badly, as a garment.
- 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
- n. someone unable to adapt to their circumstances
Etymologies
- From mis- + fit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That Rudolph, with his nose so bright, becomes a hero by leading Santa's reindeer on a foggy night is no matter to Professor George Giuliani, who claims that this isn't a cute little story; the rampant use of the word "misfit" aimed at Rudolph sends the wrong message to vulnerable children.”
The Huffington Post: Claudia Gryvatz Copquin: The Prof Who Stole Christmas
“In near future Tokyo, on working-class misfit is training the other to be a judo fighter.”
“With this array of characters, the one that visually stands out the most as a misfit is Malfoy.”
Aryan Imagin(Nation): Harry Potter and the Teutonic Malfoys of Doom « The Blog at 16th and Q
“From this point on, the novel is part boarding school story, and part mystery, and while Scarlett does find new allies in American misfit Taylor, and gardener Jase, she’s very much always on the outside looking in.”
All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Review: Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson
“We get to know the so-called "misfit" toys up close and personal, and discover that they, too, while different -- are at least as good if not better than more conventional toys.”
The Huffington Post: David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
“Nine months ago, there were only about five of us watching: and, yes, they did suck, those few darn rag-tag misfit losers from McKinley High in Lima, Ohio, but we knew they would get better, gleefully so.”
The Guardian: Glee; Imagine; Storyville; Peckham Finishing School for Girls
“After all, a misfit was a misfit, no amount of pious endeavour, or even worldly wisdom, would cure it.”
“There are many misfits in the world, and you know a misfit is the cheapest and most useless thing known.”
“A poet is born a poet, as all the world is well aware; and your thorough-paced lawyer is not less born a lawyer; while the junction of these two most militant incompatibles clearly bears out the hackneyed quotation as above, with the final misfit, that is, "_non fit_.”
“Jonathan Demme's big-hearted, tragicomic portrait of a misfit is a homecoming for more than just Kym (Anne Hathaway), the damaged-goods sister of the titular bride.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misfit’.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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quite a handful.
this girl has fire.
firebrand, spitfire, firecracker, rebel, insurrectionist, zealot, maverick, misfit, dreamer, agitator, instigator, inciter and 27 more...
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words I listed first
just what it says...
nacelle, misfit, curd, rooked, mechanical, centric, pilloried, flaunt, föhn, internationalization, permeability, aerial and 6 more...
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stompin' and pickin'
clementine, wabash cannonball, chicory, fisticuffs, flapjacks, grifter, hoedown, honky tonk, tupelo, tarnation, trestle, sorghum and 44 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 152
cannonball, blow away, improbable, hardened, handicapper, regarded, defiance, obstacle, destined, cargo, cargo plane, Caracas and 49 more...
Tweets
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bilby Dennis, no misfit can act if Simon sinned. Oct 18, 2008