misfitn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪsfɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmɪsˌfɪt/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix¹, fit n.⁴

Etymology: < mis- prefix¹ + fit n.⁴ Compare slightly later misfit v.

A. n.

a. A garment or other article which does not fit (or occasionally suit) the person for whom it is intended. Also in extended use. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of

impertinency1588

impertinence1603

solecism1603

incongruitya1626

unfitness1645

misfit1823

malapropos1854

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit > instance of

misfit1823

1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Misfits—clothes which do not suit the wearer's shape. Hence, ‘'tis a misfit’, when a story, or some endeavour fails of its effect, then ‘it von't fit’.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 232/2 There are a number of [artificial] eyes come over from France, but these are generally what we call misfits.

1865 C. Knight Passages Working Life III. x. 213 [The] shoemaker..would occasionally have a misfit or two on his hands.

1866 W. Collins Armadale ii. viii. 241 There are some unfortunate people in this world, whose names are—how can I express it?—whose names are, Misfits.

1891 G. B. Shaw in World 13 May 27/2 He was put out of countenance from the beginning by being clothed in a seedy misfit which made him look lamentably down on his luck.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 14/1 Frocks and coats and hats can be as strange a misfit as if a canary dressed up like a bluejay.

b. Failure of a garment to fit correctly; the quality or fact of fitting a person badly. Also (in extended use): inaccurate fit; (hence) unsuitability, disparity, inconsistency.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit

misfitting1841

misfit1844

1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 338/2 The tailor examined every seam, without finding out the cause of the misfit.

1886 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 177 183 The effect of misfit in the journal and brass.

1895 New Eng. Mag. July 590 Dr. Clark proved his good judgment conspicuously in his choice of general secretary. A good opportunity was here afforded for a case of misfit.

1896 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 59 334 With skew-curves the results are generally better, averaging about 5 per cent. ‘misfit’.

1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman iii. 29 Our journey from the period when we first strutted thoughtlessly in our Cousin Charles's castoff coat to the time when we resented its misfit.

1963 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 272 499 Once a polytype is formed the Burgers vector of a screw dislocation in it would be related to its lattice dimension so that there may be no misfit across the slip plane.

1995 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 89 540 These false premises account for the misfit in the book between the analytical framework and the well-told empirical stories.

2. A person unsuited or ill-suited to his or her environment, work, etc.; spec. one set apart from or rejected by others for his or her conspicuously odd, unusual, or antisocial behaviour and attitudes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s)

horse-marine1823

a square peg in a round hole1836

misfit1860

odd-come-short1873

1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 262 The man is..borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

1903 C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling vi Amid the streets of Landport Father Dolling was no deplorable misfit.

1936 Discovery Sept. 280/1 The selection and training of personnel to eliminate as far as possible the misfit and (what is far more prevalent) the partial misfit who just stands the test of results but has really missed his vocation.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 57/1 He is a determined individualist, wears Afrika Korps uniform while serving in the British Army and is something of a misfit.

1975 Times 20 Aug. 4/8 The police..said young misfits were taking as their victims other car drivers.

1993 Independent on Sunday 25 July (Review Suppl.) 9/4 In the book, Marathon, Cascadia is a rigidly conformist cow-college town, with a winning football team and a paranoid contempt for Reds, misfits and intellectuals.

3. Physical Geography. A misfit stream or river (see sense B. 3).

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other

well streamOE

letch1138

well strandc1429

pow1481

black water1483

wash1530

gravel-brook1591

spring branch1650

pour1790

water splash1820

chalk stream1829

understream1830

water feeder1831

quebrada1833

black spring1847

weir-stream1889

obsequent1895

anti-dip1900

resequent1901

misfit1910

1900 W. M. Davis in Science 16 Mar. 434/1 Beheading is therefore not alone the cause of the misfit of the Coln and its neighbours in the upper Thames system.]

1910 P. Lake & R. H. Rastall Text-bk. Geol. iii. 47 In this case the lower part of valley A is left dry, or with an insignificant stream only, which appears to be too small to have eroded the valley in which it flows. Such a stream is called a misfit.

1948 Sci. Monthly July 41/1 The present stream flowing through the gaps, Grand Portage Creek, is a misfit.

B. adj.

1. That fits or is fitted poorly; unfit; unsuitable. Also: of or relating to poor fit.

ΚΠ

1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 460/2 (advt.) Misfit Carpets. English Brussels, Three Ply and Ingrain, also, Stair Carpets.

1901 Science 1 Nov. 668/2 These striking terms may excite a smile but they are not uttered carelessly, nor are they misfit.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 223/2 The advantage of this combination is that..it..lessens the danger of making ‘misfit’ pig iron, i.e. that which, because it is not accurately suited to the process for which it is intended, offers us the dilemma [etc.].

1937 Life 26 July 14/3 (advt.) ‘Misfit Blades Made My Face Smart, Burn’—says Seattle man.

1955 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 228 45 The slip plane..is now a unique plane and is a misfit surface.

1971 Nature 18 June 439/2 Misfit motion in the African plate closed this rift in Santonian time.

1995 Mineral. Mag. 59 72 The defects..are interpreted to be..misfit dislocations.

2. Of, relating to, or designating social misfits ( A. 2). Also in extended use.

ΚΠ

1929 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 2 461 These misfit personalities constitute an increasingly serious social problem.

1936 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 10 210 Emotional factors which inevitably are linked with many misfit children.

1961 A. Miller Misfits xi. 117 Nothin' but misfit horses, that's all they are, honey.

1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 46/3 An alcove across the street from the high school where some of the misfit students occasionally gather to seek refuge from their more conventional colleagues.

3. Physical Geography. Designating or relating to a stream or river that occupies a valley that is smaller or (usually) larger than would be predicted on the basis of the stream's present erosive power; overfit or (usually) underfit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [adjective] > overfit or underfit

overfit1913

underfit1913

misfit1932

1932 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 40 486 (heading) Misfit streams.

1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. v. 57 The wind gap in which Farnham is built with an elbow of capture to the south and the misfit river Blackwater to the north make this a classic example of river capture.

1964 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 452 - a. 6/1 Streams recognized as misfit are so usually underfit that the two names are frequently interchanged.

1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 76/1 Possible signs of river capture that can often be detected in the landscape include windgaps and elbows of capture, incision of the capturing stream below the capture, and the evident misfit nature of the beheaded stream.

1987 J. Bond in J. Cook & L. Taylor Village within City i. 7 The lower course of the Bayswater Brook is clearly a misfit stream, out of scale with its valley.

1992 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 19 658/2 Misfit meanders are typical of some of the smallest of these rivers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

misfitv.

Brit.

/ˌmɪsˈfɪt/, U.S.

/ˌmɪsˈfɪt/

Inflections: Past tense and past participle misfitted;

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix¹, fit v.¹

Etymology: < mis- prefix¹ + fit v.¹ Compare slightly earlier misfit n.

1. transitive. Originally: to measure (a person) incorrectly for a garment (rare). In later use usually: to fail to fit, fit badly; to be unfitting or inappropriate for (a person, etc.). Also in passive: to be a bad fit, to be unsuitable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > not to suit [verb (transitive)] > fail to fit

misfit1834

1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 149/1 Tailors, who happen to misfit their fashionable customers.

1854 J. A. Heraud Videna i. i. 1 A slight blemish of nature, which, in his royal esteem, misfitted a polished court like this of Trinovant.

a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 44 ‘Confound them, I'm devilish misfitted,’ said Sands.

1894 Outing 24 244/2 His garments all misfitted him so astonishingly.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel x. 92 Lady Portarles, whose voice and manner would not have misfitted a jockey, had a heart of gold.

1979 Ecology 60 1287/1 By showing how agricultural cultures have fit (or misfit) their environments.

1992 Bowling Digest Mar. 32/3 If the ball is misfitted from the start it can hurt your hand and cause you to develop bad habits.

†2. intransitive. To fail to fit; to be a poor fit. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1884 W. S. Gilbert Princess Ida ii. 18 Let all your things misfit, and yourselves, At inconvenient moments come undone.

1887 Twin Soul II. iii. 32 Every truth..is a link in one eternal and infinite chain, and cannot possibly misfit with or contradict any other.

Derivatives

misˈfitted adj.

ΚΠ

1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 15 Nov. 628/1 The clothes are much too wide.., and give him the appearance of a misfitted dissenting minister.

1992 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts 175 Haulover Creek is lined with slapped-together shacks of misfitted boards in cheap landsmen's pastels.

misˈfitting n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit

misfitting1841

misfit1844

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > failing to fit

misfitting1841

1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xiv. 17 A kind of Chinese puzzle with a deficiency of pieces which he seeks to supply from his own misfitting stores.

1851 I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 233 The misfitting of the twelve volumes [of Wesley's Writings] to the times current.

1935 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 30 254 Slight misfitting of the curve due to sampling variations would lead to large shifts in the calculated maxima and minima.

1994 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 22/3 The Government was borrowing and spending money as if they were no Monday. This gave us not one but two misfitting policies—one of them too loose and one too tight.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	misfit
释义	misfitn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɪsfɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix¹, fit n.⁴ Etymology: < mis- prefix¹ + fit n.⁴ Compare slightly later misfit v. A. n. 1. a. A garment or other article which does not fit (or occasionally suit) the person for whom it is intended. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of impertinency1588 impertinence1603 solecism1603 incongruitya1626 unfitness1645 misfit1823 malapropos1854 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit > instance of misfit1823 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Misfits—clothes which do not suit the wearer's shape. Hence, ‘'tis a misfit’, when a story, or some endeavour fails of its effect, then ‘it von't fit’. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 232/2 There are a number of [artificial] eyes come over from France, but these are generally what we call misfits. 1865 C. Knight Passages Working Life III. x. 213 [The] shoemaker..would occasionally have a misfit or two on his hands. 1866 W. Collins Armadale ii. viii. 241 There are some unfortunate people in this world, whose names are—how can I express it?—whose names are, Misfits. 1891 G. B. Shaw in World 13 May 27/2 He was put out of countenance from the beginning by being clothed in a seedy misfit which made him look lamentably down on his luck. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 14/1 Frocks and coats and hats can be as strange a misfit as if a canary dressed up like a bluejay. b. Failure of a garment to fit correctly; the quality or fact of fitting a person badly. Also (in extended use): inaccurate fit; (hence) unsuitability, disparity, inconsistency. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit misfitting1841 misfit1844 1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 338/2 The tailor examined every seam, without finding out the cause of the misfit. 1886 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 177 183 The effect of misfit in the journal and brass. 1895 New Eng. Mag. July 590 Dr. Clark proved his good judgment conspicuously in his choice of general secretary. A good opportunity was here afforded for a case of misfit. 1896 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 59 334 With skew-curves the results are generally better, averaging about 5 per cent. ‘misfit’. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman iii. 29 Our journey from the period when we first strutted thoughtlessly in our Cousin Charles's castoff coat to the time when we resented its misfit. 1963 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 272 499 Once a polytype is formed the Burgers vector of a screw dislocation in it would be related to its lattice dimension so that there may be no misfit across the slip plane. 1995 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 89 540 These false premises account for the misfit in the book between the analytical framework and the well-told empirical stories. 2. A person unsuited or ill-suited to his or her environment, work, etc.; spec. one set apart from or rejected by others for his or her conspicuously odd, unusual, or antisocial behaviour and attitudes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > instance of > that which is out of place > person(s) horse-marine1823 a square peg in a round hole1836 misfit1860 odd-come-short1873 1860 R. W. Emerson Beauty in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 262 The man is..borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. 1903 C. E. Osborne Life Fr. Dolling vi Amid the streets of Landport Father Dolling was no deplorable misfit. 1936 Discovery Sept. 280/1 The selection and training of personnel to eliminate as far as possible the misfit and (what is far more prevalent) the partial misfit who just stands the test of results but has really missed his vocation. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Jan. 57/1 He is a determined individualist, wears Afrika Korps uniform while serving in the British Army and is something of a misfit. 1975 Times 20 Aug. 4/8 The police..said young misfits were taking as their victims other car drivers. 1993 Independent on Sunday 25 July (Review Suppl.) 9/4 In the book, Marathon, Cascadia is a rigidly conformist cow-college town, with a winning football team and a paranoid contempt for Reds, misfits and intellectuals. 3. Physical Geography. A misfit stream or river (see sense B. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > other well streamOE letch1138 well strandc1429 pow1481 black water1483 wash1530 gravel-brook1591 spring branch1650 pour1790 water splash1820 chalk stream1829 understream1830 water feeder1831 quebrada1833 black spring1847 weir-stream1889 obsequent1895 anti-dip1900 resequent1901 misfit1910 1900 W. M. Davis in Science 16 Mar. 434/1 Beheading is therefore not alone the cause of the misfit of the Coln and its neighbours in the upper Thames system.] 1910 P. Lake & R. H. Rastall Text-bk. Geol. iii. 47 In this case the lower part of valley A is left dry, or with an insignificant stream only, which appears to be too small to have eroded the valley in which it flows. Such a stream is called a misfit. 1948 Sci. Monthly July 41/1 The present stream flowing through the gaps, Grand Portage Creek, is a misfit. B. adj. 1. That fits or is fitted poorly; unfit; unsuitable. Also: of or relating to poor fit. ΚΠ 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 460/2 (advt.) Misfit Carpets. English Brussels, Three Ply and Ingrain, also, Stair Carpets. 1901 Science 1 Nov. 668/2 These striking terms may excite a smile but they are not uttered carelessly, nor are they misfit. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 223/2 The advantage of this combination is that..it..lessens the danger of making ‘misfit’ pig iron, i.e. that which, because it is not accurately suited to the process for which it is intended, offers us the dilemma [etc.]. 1937 Life 26 July 14/3 (advt.) ‘Misfit Blades Made My Face Smart, Burn’—says Seattle man. 1955 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 228 45 The slip plane..is now a unique plane and is a misfit surface. 1971 Nature 18 June 439/2 Misfit motion in the African plate closed this rift in Santonian time. 1995 Mineral. Mag. 59 72 The defects..are interpreted to be..misfit dislocations. 2. Of, relating to, or designating social misfits ( A. 2). Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1929 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 2 461 These misfit personalities constitute an increasingly serious social problem. 1936 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 10 210 Emotional factors which inevitably are linked with many misfit children. 1961 A. Miller Misfits xi. 117 Nothin' but misfit horses, that's all they are, honey. 1994 Rolling Stone 2 June 46/3 An alcove across the street from the high school where some of the misfit students occasionally gather to seek refuge from their more conventional colleagues. 3. Physical Geography. Designating or relating to a stream or river that occupies a valley that is smaller or (usually) larger than would be predicted on the basis of the stream's present erosive power; overfit or (usually) underfit. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [adjective] > overfit or underfit overfit1913 underfit1913 misfit1932 1932 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 40 486 (heading) Misfit streams. 1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. v. 57 The wind gap in which Farnham is built with an elbow of capture to the south and the misfit river Blackwater to the north make this a classic example of river capture. 1964 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 452 - a. 6/1 Streams recognized as misfit are so usually underfit that the two names are frequently interchanged. 1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 76/1 Possible signs of river capture that can often be detected in the landscape include windgaps and elbows of capture, incision of the capturing stream below the capture, and the evident misfit nature of the beheaded stream. 1987 J. Bond in J. Cook & L. Taylor Village within City i. 7 The lower course of the Bayswater Brook is clearly a misfit stream, out of scale with its valley. 1992 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 19 658/2 Misfit meanders are typical of some of the smallest of these rivers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misfitv. Brit. /ˌmɪsˈfɪt/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈfɪt/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle misfitted; Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mis- prefix¹, fit v.¹ Etymology: < mis- prefix¹ + fit v.¹ Compare slightly earlier misfit n. 1. transitive. Originally: to measure (a person) incorrectly for a garment (rare). In later use usually: to fail to fit, fit badly; to be unfitting or inappropriate for (a person, etc.). Also in passive: to be a bad fit, to be unsuitable. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > not to suit [verb (transitive)] > fail to fit misfit1834 1834 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 3 149/1 Tailors, who happen to misfit their fashionable customers. 1854 J. A. Heraud Videna i. i. 1 A slight blemish of nature, which, in his royal esteem, misfitted a polished court like this of Trinovant. a1866 W. Anderson Rhymes (1867) 44 ‘Confound them, I'm devilish misfitted,’ said Sands. 1894 Outing 24 244/2 His garments all misfitted him so astonishingly. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel x. 92 Lady Portarles, whose voice and manner would not have misfitted a jockey, had a heart of gold. 1979 Ecology 60 1287/1 By showing how agricultural cultures have fit (or misfit) their environments. 1992 Bowling Digest Mar. 32/3 If the ball is misfitted from the start it can hurt your hand and cause you to develop bad habits. †2. intransitive. To fail to fit; to be a poor fit. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1884 W. S. Gilbert Princess Ida ii. 18 Let all your things misfit, and yourselves, At inconvenient moments come undone. 1887 Twin Soul II. iii. 32 Every truth..is a link in one eternal and infinite chain, and cannot possibly misfit with or contradict any other. Derivatives misˈfitted adj. ΚΠ 1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 15 Nov. 628/1 The clothes are much too wide.., and give him the appearance of a misfitted dissenting minister. 1992 E. Hoagland in Balancing Acts 175 Haulover Creek is lined with slapped-together shacks of misfitted boards in cheap landsmen's pastels. misˈfitting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > failure to fit misfitting1841 misfit1844 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > failing to fit misfitting1841 1841 E. Rigby Resid. Shores Baltic II. xiv. 17 A kind of Chinese puzzle with a deficiency of pieces which he seeks to supply from his own misfitting stores. 1851 I. Taylor Wesley & Methodism 233 The misfitting of the twelve volumes [of Wesley's Writings] to the times current. 1935 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 30 254 Slight misfitting of the curve due to sampling variations would lead to large shifts in the calculated maxima and minima. 1994 Daily Tel. 16 Sept. 22/3 The Government was borrowing and spending money as if they were no Monday. This gave us not one but two misfitting policies—one of them too loose and one too tight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1823v.1834
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