misfit
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/
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inadaptado
- To their delight, they discovered that there were a lot of other misfits out there who appreciated what they did.
- a social misfit
I always, you know, just was a misfit.
- I always, you know, just was a misfit.
- And then Haley and her band of misfits.
- He surrounds himself with criminals and misfits.
- Remember from our first session his Apple Think Different commercial, his hymn of praise to rebels, misfits and geniuses.
- It's about kind of two misfits who find each other and by finding each other, they become whole.
- Well, the first one is sort of about a group of misfits who, you know, find friendship and strength through acapella music.
- I found a community of people that we were just a bunch of misfits and outcasts that sort of fit together somehow.
- They tend to have had childhoods in which they were misfits, starting with Leonardo da Vinci, who I wrote about.
- They're talking about maybe one of the misfits boxing one of the celebrities.
- People that just had just sort of like misfits.
Examples
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I think we're all misfits in, in, in some way, shape or form.
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It's about kind of two misfits who find each other and by finding each other, they become whole.
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Similarly, someone who is of Type A may be a misfit to major in the field of religious studies.
Academic text (2003) -
And my defining experience growing up was being a misfit and every culture that I was in.
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Just in that year, a young misfit came to Stanford and he wrote his book at Stanford in the creative writing programme.
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So I definitely am a misfit and I do well where the misfits go.
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There we were-- a bunch of misfits.
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I found a community of people that we were just a bunch of misfits and outcasts that sort of fit together somehow.
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I found this amazing community of misfits and confused teenagers like me, and I felt comfortable and at home for the first time, and I just wanted to play in a punk rock band.
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Growing up, I always felt like a misfit because I didn't share the same interests as my classmates.
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who acts in a strange or unusual way
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5.1
A person who other people reject and avoid
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7.2
A person who acts in a strange way
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5.9
A person who does not fit in with a group
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6.1
A person who is clearly different from others and does not fit in
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7.0
A person who behaves in an unusual way that others find odd
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6.0
A person with unusual habits or behavior
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6.8
A person who acts in a way people think is strange
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9.1
A person who behaves very differently from what others expect
A person who feels awkward and does not belong
A person who feels out of place in a group
How Accepted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Misfit comes from the prefix mis- meaning 'not' or 'wrong' and the word fit meaning 'to belong' or 'to be the right size'. So a misfit is like a piece that does not 'fit in', a person who does not belong easily to a group.