Meaning of MISFIT
| Pronunciation: | | mis'fit
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| | Definition: | | [n] someone unable to adapt to their circumstances |
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| | See Also: | | addle-head, anomaly, anthropoid, ape, birdbrain, dork, jerk, loon, unusual person | |
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| | Definition: | |  Misfit
A biography of novelist Frederick Exley (1929-92), from his youth in a small upstate New York town, to the auto accident that ended his football career, to the publication of his one novel (the autobiographical A Fan`s Notes ) that is considered great, as well as several lesser works. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mis*fit"\, n.
1. The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in
making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
2. Something that fits badly, as a garment.
I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat
tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit.
--Dickens.
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| | Related Terms: | | anomaly, beatnik, black sheep, blemish, Bohemian, crosspatch, deviant, dissenter, dropout, eccentric, flower child, foreign body, foreign intruder, freak, heretic, hippie, impurity, individual, individualist, inner-directed person, intruder, maverick, monkey wrench, mote, naysayer, nonconformist, nonjuror, oddball, original, sectarian, sectary, sliver, speck, splinter, sport, stone, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, weed, yippie |
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