单词 | mismatched |
释义 | mismatchedadj. Matched badly, unsuitably, or incorrectly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > badly or unsuitably matched unevenlyc1425 matchless1596 unfellowed1597 misgraffed1600 mismatched1638 ill-sorted1691 misgrafted1738 mismated1852 misrelated1881 1638 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 282 Here and there a mismatched suit, but none complete. 1726 G. Leoni Alcuni Disegni di Edificj: Some Designs for Buildings Pref. 1/2 Ill-disposed and mis-matched Scraps. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xx. 251 What am I now?—Fit only ‘To point a moral, or adorn a tale’—A mismatched, misplaced, miserable perverted being. 1853 C. C. Felton Familiar Lett. (1865) xliii. 317 A mismatched pair of Eleusinian steeds. 1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 5/1 500 Tapestry Brussels Rugs at a saving of one-third to one-half because they are a trifle mismatched. 1992 V. Capel Public Addr. Syst. vii. 103 Mismatched transistors produce unequal half-cycles and so generate second harmonic distortion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1638 |
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