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Missit vs Misfit - What's the difference?

missit | misfit |

As verbs the difference between missit and misfit

is that missit is (obsolete|transitive) to sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome while misfit is (intransitive) to fit badly.

As a noun misfit is

an ill-fitting garment.

missit

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)

    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.