Meaning

1 senses

  1. To match unsuitably; to fail to match

More definitions
  • match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together

Examples

7 sentences

  1. Tom was wearing mismatched socks.

    ruТом был в разных носках. — marafon

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  2. Thanks for fixing the mismatches between tenses.

    ruИсправьте, пожалуйста, временные несоответствия. — marafon

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  3. Tom's socks are mismatched.

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  4. What's with that mismatched dress?

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  5. Ziri is wearing mismatching socks.

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Origin

From mis- + match (verb sense).

From mis- + match (verb sense).

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Forms

mismatches, mismatching, mismatched, mismatched
Base formmismatch · to mismatch
3rd person singularmismatches
Present participlemismatching
Past simplemismatched
Past participlemismatched

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymismatch
he, she, itmismatches

Past simpleLesson

all personsmismatched

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave mismatched
he, she, ithas mismatched

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mismatch

Word family

2 related words
Derivedmismatchermismatchment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misleadB1mismanagemismanagementmisnomermisomisogynist

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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