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misfit

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mis·fit /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ noun [countable]  WRONG/UNSUITABLEsomeone 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 格格不入的人,不适应环境的人 SYN outsider I was very conscious of being a misfit at school. 我深深感到自己在学校里格格不入。 a social misfit 与社会格格不入的人
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misfitI didn't have a very happy time at school - I suppose I was something of a misfit.However, as they say, once a misfit, always a misfit!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.All his posse friends were psychos, deranged misfits who were cruel for kicks.Yet they weren't attractive men; she seemed to have a line in short, greasy misfits.He's always blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.He bitterly blamed his parents for turning him into a social misfit.Ostensibly a social misfit, he is most at home with his new books, old records and middle-aged pet Labrador.I was a social misfit at school.Were these beginnings among the outcasts, the pariahs, and the misfits merely accidental?
mis·fit nounChineseSyllable
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misfit
misfit /ˈmɪsˌfɪt/ noun [countable]
 Word Family: noun: fit, fitting, fitness, fitter, misfit; adjective: fitted, fitting, fitunfit; verb: fit; adverb: fittingly
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


mis·fitBrE /ˈmɪsfɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈmɪsfɪt/ 🔊 nouna person who is not accepted by a particular group of people, especially because their behaviour or their ideas are very different 与别人合不来的人;行为(或思想)怪异的人a social misfit与社会格格不入的人