mismatch
/ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/
mismatch verb: to match unsuitably; to fail to match.
Verb
mismatch (third-person singular simple present mismatches, present participle mismatching, simple past and past participle mismatched)
- To match unsuitably; to fail to match
Noun
IPA/ˈmɪs.mæt͡ʃ/
mismatch (countable and uncountable, plural mismatches)
- Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
- After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.2012 September 7, Dominic Fifield, “England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova”, in The Guardian
mismatch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
mismatch in Hindi
- a mismatch, an incongruence
- बेमेल bemel
mismatch in Tamil
- பொருந்தாமை
mismatch in Urdu
- بےجوڑ
mismatch in Bengali
- mismatch
- গোঁজামিল gō̃jamil
More languagesFewer languages
- mismatch in Malayalam
- പൊരുത്തക്കേട് poruttakkēṭŭ
- mismatch in Punjabi
- ਕਜੋੜ kajoṛ
- mismatch in Nepali
- बेमेल
Examples of mismatch in a sentence
- Sure, mismatching isn't ideal, but I'd much rather have mismatched decent tyres than matched AliBaba-brand-it-yourself ditchfinders.
- But the impedance mismatch between SQL and Java was no better than between SQL and other languages.
- Some argue that having impedance mismatch is difficult for programming intensive applications.
Forms of mismatch
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | mismatches |
| present participle | mismatching |
| past participle | mismatched |
| past | mismatched |
| Noun | |
| plural | mismatches |
Origin of mismatch
From mis- + match (verb sense).
From mis- + match (noun sense).
Words formed from mismatch
Words that rhyme with mismatch
Questions about mismatch
- What does mismatch mean?
- Mismatch means to match unsuitably; to fail to match.
- What is mismatch in Hindi?
- Mismatch in Hindi is बेमेल (bemel). See Mismatch meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mismatch?
- Mismatch can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mismatch?
- Mismatch is pronounced /ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/.
- What is the past tense of mismatch?
- The past tense of mismatch is mismatched.
Words near mismatch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mismatch (page history and authors); बेमेल (Hindi) (page history and authors); mismatch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mismatch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গোঁজামিল (Bengali) (page history and authors); പൊരുത്തക്കേട് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mismatch (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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