Misfit vs Oddball - What's the difference?
misfit | oddball |
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.
Exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.
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As nouns the difference between misfit and oddball
is that misfit is an ill-fitting garment while oddball is an eccentric or unusual person.As a verb misfit
is (intransitive) to fit badly.As an adjective oddball is
exotic, not mainstream, such as an oddball word or an oddball computer program.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.
