Crossword clues for mismatched
mismatched
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mismatched \mis*matched"\ adj.
Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics. [Narrower terms: ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited; odd, unmatched, unmated, unpaired ] Also See: {incompatible. Antonym: matched.
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Of very unequal ability; -- of contestants in a contest. The less able contestant is said to be overmatched or outclassed.
Syn: uneven, not fairly matched.
Wiktionary
Unsuitably matched; ill joined. v
(en-past of: mismatch)
WordNet
Usage examples of "mismatched".
Banfry told him, because of one very peculiar thing about it—it had mismatched eyes.
It showed a very nice looking cat with a tawny coat, two white forepaws, and mismatched eyes that gave him a rather eerie appearance.
Still, it seemed strange to run into another cat with mismatched eyes the very night he started out to look for a missing cat with that same unusual feature.
Well, that cat was an Abyssinian cat—the royal cat of old Egypt—and it had mismatched eyes and two black forepaws!
We knew that all Sardon had said was true, because one night the spirit of Ra-Orkon mysteriously appeared in my room, as Sardon had said he would, living again in the body of an Abyssinian cat with mismatched eyes and two black forepaws.
His mind was a whirling merry-go-round of strange events—a whispering mummy that had vanished, a falling statue, a runaway granite ball, a cat with mismatched eyes, an ancient Egyptian curse.
Banfry’s cat, Sphinx, had been written up in several magazines and papers, with pictures of its mismatched eyes.
The knees of his hose were patched and his mismatched shoes were out at the toes.
Mister Wolf said, settling with obvious comfort back into his patched rust-colored tunic and mismatched shoes.
His tangled hair was white, and his clothing was mismatched, appearing to consist mostly of castoffs he had found beside this trail or that.
The fact that his boots were mismatched was neither an indication of poverty nor of carelessness.
The old man had resisted all of Zakath's tactful offers of less disreputable raiment, and still wore, defiantly, Garion thought, his stained tunic, patched hose, and mismatched boots.
Though they all wore helmets of one kind or another, the rest of their clothing was of mismatched colors and could by no stretch of the imagination be called uniforms.
He still wore the mismatched boots, patched hose, and rust-colored tunic he had worn when he had appeared at Faldor's farm as Mister Wolf the storyteller.
Deprived of the passing scenery, she chose to stare at her folded hands, uncomfortably aware of her husand's mismatched eyes.