Desperado vs Misfit - What's the difference?
desperado | misfit |
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
*1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
*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.
An ill-fitting garment.
A failure to fit well; unsuitability, disparity.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 94:
A badly adjusted person; someone unsuitable or set apart because of their habits, behaviour etc.
* 2008 , Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", :
(intransitive) To fit badly.
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)- 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.
misfit
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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
* See alsoVerb
- His suit was misfitted and looked awkward.