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Misfit vs Maverick - What's the difference?

misfit | maverick |

As nouns the difference between misfit and maverick

is that misfit is an ill-fitting garment while maverick is an unbranded range animal.

As a verb misfit

is to fit badly.

As an adjective maverick is

showing independence in thoughts or actions.

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

    * See also

    Verb

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

    maverick

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
    • He made a maverick decision.
    He is a maverick person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unbranded range animal.
  • * Around 1900 , O Henry,
    • Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
  • One who does not abide by rules.
  • One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
    • Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills.'' (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, ''Trick or Treatment , 2008, p. 36-37.)
  • (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in

    • Synonyms

    * (one who does not abide by rules) individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebel

    See also

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    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English eponyms