missuit
/mɪsˈsuːt/
missuit verb: to fail to suit.
Verb
missuit (third-person singular simple present missuits, present participle missuiting, simple past and past participle missuited)
- To fail to suit.
- I now discovered — as in hasty love matches has but too often proved to be the case — that my guide and I were unhappily missuited to each other, and the consequence was we had at least six quarrels […]1852, Sir Francis Bond Head, A Faggot of French Sticks, volume 1, page 121
- Each states the law and fact and face o' the thing
Just as he'd have them, finds what he thinks fit,
Is blind to what missuits him, just records
What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest.1864, Robert Browning, “The Medium”, in Mr. Sludge, '
Forms of missuit
| third-person singular present | missuits |
|---|---|
| present participle | missuiting |
| past participle | missuited |
| past | missuited |
Origin of missuit
From mis- + suit.
Questions about missuit
- What does missuit mean?
- Missuit means to fail to suit.
- What part of speech is missuit?
- Missuit is a verb.
- How do you pronounce missuit?
- Missuit is pronounced /mɪsˈsuːt/.
- What is the past tense of missuit?
- The past tense of missuit is missuited.
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