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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
misfit
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
▪ I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.
▪ I was a social misfit at school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All his posse friends were psychos, deranged misfits who were cruel for kicks.
▪ Bloody misfits, he cursed inwardly, as he trudged down into the blackness.
▪ During the commune heydays of the early 1970s, the ranch collected a typically renegade group of cultural misfits.
▪ He bitterly blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
▪ However, as they say, once a misfit, always a misfit!
▪ Ostensibly a social misfit, he is most at home with his new books, old records and middle-aged pet Labrador.
▪ Were these beginnings among the outcasts, the pariahs, and the misfits merely accidental?
▪ Yet they weren't attractive men; she seemed to have a line in short, greasy misfits.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misfit

Misfit \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.

  3. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
misfit

1823, "garment which does not fit the person for whom it was intended;" see mis- (1) + fit (n.1). Meaning "person who does not fit his environment" is attested from 1880.

Wiktionary
misfit

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

WordNet
misfit

  1. n. someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

  2. [also: misfitting, misfitted]

Wikipedia
Misfit (short story)

"Misfit" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally titled Cosmic Construction Corps before being renamed by the editor John W. Campbell. The short was first published in the November 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. One of the earliest of his Future History stories, it was later included in the collections Revolt in 2100 and The Past Through Tomorrow.

Misfit

Misfit may refer to:

In print
  • "Misfit" (short story), a short story by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Misfit (Marvel Comics), a fictional male supervillain
  • Misfit (DC Comics), a fictional female vigilante
  • The Misfit, a character in Flannery O'Connor's short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Companies
  • Misfit Wearables, a wearable sensor technology design and manufacturing company
  • Misfit Studios, a Canadian small press publishing company
Entertainment
  • "Misfit" (song), a song by Amy Studt
  • "Misfit" (Elefant song)
  • "Misfit", a song by Curiosity Killed the Cat
  • The Misfit (TV series), a 1970s ATV sitcom series
  • Salah Asuhan (film), a 1972 Indonesian film released internationally as The Misfit
Geography
  • Misfit stream (or river), geographical term, one too small to have carved out the valley in which it flows.
People
  • Misfit (rapper), a rapper in the hip hop group Rascalz
  • Misfit (songwriter), a Korean lyricist at S.M. Entertainment
Misfit (song)

"Misfit" is the second single from UK singer Amy Studt. Released on 9 June 2003, the single reached a peak of #6 in the charts and is Studt's most successful single to date. It was also the most successful single internationally. It is taken from her debut album, False Smiles. The song is criticizing those who conform, labelling them superficial and saying it is all right to be a misfit. It is included on Now 55 in the UK.

Misfit (comics)

Misfit, in comics, may refer to:

  • Misfit (Marvel Comics), a supervillain.
  • Misfit (DC Comics), a young female vigilante.
Misfit (DC Comics)

Misfit (Charlotte "Charlie" Gage-Radcliffe) is a fictional character in the . She first appeared in Birds of Prey #96 (September 2006) as a wannabe Batgirl, before taking on her own identity as Misfit.

Misfit (songwriter)

Misfit (also known as Miss Pitt) is a South Korean songwriter, lyricist and artist. She is one of the studio artists at S.M. Entertainment headquarters in Seoul. Misfit has penned the lyrics of songs for various SM Town artists including BoA, TRAX, Super Junior, Shinee, f(x) and Exo as well as Jellyfish Entertainment's VIXX.

Usage examples of "misfit".

For the purpose of his grand project he was quite willing to spend a long stint on Barchan, studying the Dreamsea flora and fauna and shoehorning every misfit species into his scheme.

Being so, in fact and appearance, it was quite a misfit for Christmas--a mere toy with which a gay young horse might condescend to beguile a few loose hours.

Frank Parcher, the scout, a short, lean man about forty years old, was another misfit.

He remembered Theo Realo in senior year - a little white misfit of a human who skulked somewhere in the background of his reminiscences.

Its deductive approach, even to the measurement of clothing, results in complete ineptitude, and its array of abstract misfits, flappers, and adulterous wives, fleshes out the impression that the Laputans not only have the wrong idea but insist in imposing that idea universally.

He was a Marielito, one of the tens of thousands of misfits Castro had flushed from Cuba to South Florida in a fit of pique.

Out beyond the campus was a world full of blacks and Jews and spastics and neurotics and homosexuals and other misfits, but I had come up three cherries on the great slot machine of life and I was proud of my luck.

It is fitting that the last of the Bedlams be here, along with the Lady of the Amber, and the misfit who would rule the dragons as Emperor.

Of course, ultimately, painted cattleguards were like Bernabe Montoya himself, pretending to be a sheriff, when actually the title Bumbling Misfit might have suited him better than did his badge.

For, far from modeling themselves on the surrogates, the system animations seemed to be going off into self-reinforcing behavior patterns of their own, while—if his own and Lilly's cases were anything to go by—the surrogates had become misfits.

Creative misfits of all kinds slipped into the eighty approved artistic modes, including several that were sanctioned to satirize the hidebound and shake up the stodgy.

The Braincap had not only helped to weed out misfits, but had enormously increased the efficiency of education.

Because carnies are, to begin with, outcasts or misfits who can find no place in straight society, many shows (unlike the Sombra Brothers) do not ask questions when hiring new workers or contracting with new concessionaires, and among the honest misfits there are a few -very few-hard cases, criminal types.

To us: a demographer from the Indiana Corporation, and a research supervisor from the Bureau of Standards--the last two misfits sitting at the end of the world.

Tell me: by misfits, and all the other trash you’d fling out of the airlocks, do you include the kind of girl you fell in love with?