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mismatched

mismatched is the simple past and past participle of mismatch.

Meaning of mismatch

Verb

mismatch (third-person singular simple present mismatches, present participle mismatching, simple past and past participle mismatched)

  1. To match unsuitably; to fail to match

See all 2 meanings of mismatch

Adjective

mismatched (comparative more mismatched, superlative most mismatched)

  1. Unsuitably matched; ill joined.
    • As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30

Forms of mismatched

comparativemore mismatched
superlativemost mismatched

Words formed from mismatched

Words that rhyme with mismatched

Questions about mismatched

What does mismatched mean?
Mismatched means unsuitably matched; ill joined.
What is mismatched the simple past and past participle of?
Mismatched is the simple past and past participle of mismatch.
What part of speech is mismatched?
Mismatched is an adjective.

Words near mismatched in the dictionary

  1. mismarries
  2. mismarry
  3. mismarrying
  4. mismatch
  5. mismatch repair cancer syndrome
  6. mismatched
  7. mismatchedness
  8. mismatcher
  9. mismatchers
  10. mismatches
  11. mismatching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mismatched (page history and authors); mismatch (page history and authors). 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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