Dictionary Definition
misfit n : someone unable to adapt to their
circumstances [also: misfitting, misfitted]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- transitive intransitive To fit badly.
- His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.
- The car's bumper was misfit in color.
Noun
Translations
A badly adjusted person
- Finnish: sopeutumaton henkilö
An outcast
- Finnish: hylkiö
Quotations
- "Just to be on the safe side, the The Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges." [Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 2008-03-01 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/29/wmoscow329.xml]
Extensive Definition
Misfit may refer to:
- "Misfit" (short story), a short story by Robert A. Heinlein
- Misfit (Marvel Comics), a fictional male supervillain
- Misfit (DC Comics), a fictional female vigilante
- "Misfit" (song), a song by Amy Studt
- "Misfit", a song by Curiosity Killed the Cat
- The Misfit, a type of heroic stock character in fiction
See also
- Misfits (disambiguation)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bohemian, anomaly, beatnik, black sheep, blemish, 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