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单词 misfit
释义
misfitmis‧fit /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
  • I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.
  • I was a social misfit at school.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All his posse friends were psychos, deranged misfits who were cruel for kicks.
  • Bloody misfits, he cursed inwardly, as he trudged down into the blackness.
  • During the commune heydays of the early 1970s, the ranch collected a typically renegade group of cultural misfits.
  • He bitterly blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
  • However, as they say, once a misfit, always a misfit!
  • Ostensibly a social misfit, he is most at home with his new books, old records and middle-aged pet Labrador.
  • Were these beginnings among the outcasts, the pariahs, and the misfits merely accidental?
  • Yet they weren't attractive men; she seemed to have a line in short, greasy misfits.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone is not suitable for a particular job or situation
· They told me that the reason I was considered unsuitable was that I was over-qualified.· We've already rejected several unsuitable candidates.unsuitable/not suitable for · The first person we interviewed was clearly not suitable for the job.
informal if you are not cut out for a type of work or way of life, you do not have the right qualities to enjoy it or to be successful in it: · Obviously, Paul was not cut out for army life.· She'd been married only a year and a half when her husband decided he was not cut out for marriage.
completely unsuitable for a particular job: · This is a very important job, so we don't want to choose the wrong person.wrong for: · Dave's wrong for this job. He doesn't have enough patience.
formal unsuitable for a particular job or activity, because you do not have the right qualities for it: · With so little experience, Paula is not really suited to the role of personnel director.· The Lieutenant was by nature a man ill-suited to the discomforts of army life.
to be, feel, or look very different from the other people you are with, and therefore seem to not belong with them: · In her old jeans and college sweater, Sarah looked a little out of place in the foyer of the Grand Hotel.· Leary later went to Beverly Hills High School, but he felt out of place among the rich kids.
someone who does not seem to belong in a group or in society because they have different attitudes, a different appearance, different habits etc: · I didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.social/societal misfit: · He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounfitfittingfitnessfittermisfitadjectivefittedfittingfitunfitverbfitadverbfittingly
someone who does not seem to belong in a particular group of people, and who is not accepted by that group, because they are very different from the other group members SYN  outsider:  I was very conscious of being a misfit at school. a social misfit
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