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misfitmis‧fit /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ noun [countable]   - He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
- I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.
- I was a social misfit at school.
- All his posse friends were psychos, deranged misfits who were cruel for kicks.
- 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.
- He bitterly blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
- However, as they say, once a misfit, always a misfit!
- Ostensibly a social misfit, he is most at home with his new books, old records and middle-aged pet Labrador.
- Were these beginnings among the outcasts, the pariahs, and the misfits merely accidental?
- Yet they weren't attractive men; she seemed to have a line in short, greasy misfits.
when someone is not suitable for a particular job or situation► unsuitable/not suitable · They told me that the reason I was considered unsuitable was that I was over-qualified.· We've already rejected several unsuitable candidates.unsuitable/not suitable for · The first person we interviewed was clearly not suitable for the job. ► not be cut out for informal if you are not cut out for a type of work or way of life, you do not have the right qualities to enjoy it or to be successful in it: · Obviously, Paul was not cut out for army life.· She'd been married only a year and a half when her husband decided he was not cut out for marriage. ► wrong completely unsuitable for a particular job: · This is a very important job, so we don't want to choose the wrong person.wrong for: · Dave's wrong for this job. He doesn't have enough patience. ► ill-suited to something/not suited to something formal unsuitable for a particular job or activity, because you do not have the right qualities for it: · With so little experience, Paula is not really suited to the role of personnel director.· The Lieutenant was by nature a man ill-suited to the discomforts of army life. ► be/seem/feel/look out of place to be, feel, or look very different from the other people you are with, and therefore seem to not belong with them: · In her old jeans and college sweater, Sarah looked a little out of place in the foyer of the Grand Hotel.· Leary later went to Beverly Hills High School, but he felt out of place among the rich kids. ► misfit someone who does not seem to belong in a group or in society because they have different attitudes, a different appearance, different habits etc: · I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.social/societal misfit: · He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit. nounfitfittingfitnessfittermisfitadjectivefittedfittingfit ≠ unfitverbfitadverbfittingly someone 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 misfit |