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misfits

misfits is the plural of misfit.

misfits is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misfit.

Meaning of misfit

Noun

misfit (plural misfits)

  1. (archaic) An ill-fitting garment.
    • Mr Toots’s legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed, he feels misfits, and sees wrinkles, in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co., and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots.1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
  2. A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
    • And the fact that Christianity's Jesus is the resurrected Christ makes a vital point about the misfit between the Jesus whose teachings we have excavated and the Church which came after him.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 94
  3. A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
    • Do you ever feel like a misfit?
      Everything inside you is dark and twisted
      Oh, but it's okay to be different
      'Cause baby, so am I2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max

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Questions about misfits

What is misfits the plural of?
Misfits is the plural of misfit.

Words near misfits in the dictionary

  1. misfirings
  2. misfit
  3. misfit stream
  4. misfit streams
  5. misfitdom
  6. misfits
  7. misfitted
  8. misfitting
  9. misfix
  10. misfixed
  11. misfixes

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