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Desperado vs Misfit - What's the difference?

desperado | misfit |

As nouns the difference between desperado and misfit

is that desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west while misfit is an ill-fitting garment.

As a verb misfit is

(intransitive) to fit badly.

desperado

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
  • *1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
    • The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
  • *1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
  • *:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
  • (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.

    • misfit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ill-fitting garment.
  • 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.
  • * 2008 , Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", :
    • 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 .
    The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.

    Synonyms

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    Verb

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