MISFIT (misfitted, misfitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: misfitted    , misfitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does misfit mean? 

• MISFIT (noun)
  The noun MISFIT has 1 sense:

1. someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

  Familiarity information: MISFIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISFIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("misfit" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misfit"):

anthropoid; ape (person who resembles a nonhuman primate)

dork; jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person)

addle-head; addlehead; birdbrain; loon (a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought)

 Context examples 

Though I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit, I felt I had no right to be offended.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But as more were found, in addition to many other smaller planets that orbit very closely to their stars, our solar system started to seem like the real misfit.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

And when at last, thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged the cab and ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the midst of the nocturnal passengers, these two base passions raged within him like a tempest.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)