misfit

English

From mis- +‎ fit.

misfit (plural misfits)

(now rare) An ill-fitting garment.
- 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
  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.
A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 94:
  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.
A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
- 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
  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 I
- 2008, Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 1 Mar 2008 Article:
  Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.
The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.

an ill-fitting garment

failure to fit well, unsuitability

a badly adjusted person

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: չհարմարված մարդ (čʿharmarvac mard)
Belarusian: няўда́чнік m (njaŭdáčnik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不適應環境的人／不适应环境的人 (bù shìyìng huánjìng de rén)
Dutch: onaangepaste (nl) m or f
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: sopeutumaton henkilö
French: inadapté (fr) m
German: Nichtangepasster m, Nichtangepasste f, Sonderling (de) m, Aussenseiter (de) m, Unangepasster m, Außenseiter (de) m
Greek: απροσάρμοστος (el) m (aprosármostos)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Indonesian: orang canggung
Italian: disadattato (it) m
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: baltā vārna f (figuratively), baltais zvirbulis m (figuratively)
Lithuanian: nepritapėlis m, nepritapėlė f
Polish: odmieniec m
Portuguese: desajustado (pt)
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: неприспосо́бившийся челове́к m (neprisposóbivšijsja čelovék), неужи́вшийся челове́к m (neužívšijsja čelovék), неуда́чник (ru) m (neudáčnik), неуда́чница (ru) f (neudáčnica)
Spanish: inadaptado (es) m
Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: невда́ха m or f (nevdáxa)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

misfit (third-person singular simple present misfits, present participle misfitting, simple past and past participle misfitted)

(transitive, intransitive) To fit badly.
His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.

to fit badly