Word family noun fit fitting fitness fitter misfit adjective fitted fitting fit ≠ unfit verb fit adverb fittingly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmisfitmis‧fit /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ noun [countable] WRONG/UNSUITABLEsomeone who does not seem to belong in a particular group of people, and who is not accepted by that group, because they are very different from the other group members SYN outsider I was very conscious of being a misfit at school. a social misfitExamples from the Corpus
misfit• I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.• However, as they say, once a misfit, always a misfit!• 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.• All his posse friends were psychos, deranged misfits who were cruel for kicks.• Yet they weren't attractive men; she seemed to have a line in short, greasy misfits.• He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.• He bitterly blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.• Ostensibly a social misfit, he is most at home with his new books, old records and middle-aged pet Labrador.• I was a social misfit at school.• Were these beginnings among the outcasts, the pariahs, and the misfits merely accidental? 