Meaning

3 senses
  1. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.

  2. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.

    She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.

    The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.

    Nichtangepasster, Nichtangepasste, Sonderling

    неприспосо́бившийся челове́кneprisposóbivšijsja čelovék, неужи́вшийся челове́кneužívšijsja čelovék, неуда́чникneudáčnik

    невда́хаnevdáxa

  3. (archaic)An ill-fitting garment.

    пло́хо сидя́щая оде́ждаplóxo sidjáščaja odéžda

More definitions
  • someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom is a misfit.

    Том невдаха.

    deTom ist ein Eigenbrötler.

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  2. She's a misfit and the other girls make fun of her.

    ruОна не вписалась в коллектив, и другие девушки издеваются над ней.

    deSie ist eine Außenseiterin, und die anderen Mädchen machen sich über sie lustig.

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  3. He's a misfit.

    ruОн неудачник.

    deEr ist ein Außenseiter.

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  4. It's a loose group of misfits and sleazeball, but the administrator is putting in hard work to reintegrate them back into society.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a badly adjusted person:
Русский
By meaning 2
an ill-fitting garment:
a badly adjusted person:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a badly adjusted person:

Forms

plural: misfits
Singularmisfit
Pluralmisfits

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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