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MISFIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: misfitted    , misfitting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("misfit" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misfit"):

anthropoid; ape (person who resembles a nonhuman primate)

dork; jerk (a dull stupid fatuous person)

addle-head; addlehead; birdbrain; loon (a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb misfit

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