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Pariah vs Misfit - What's the difference?

pariah | misfit |

As nouns the difference between pariah and misfit

is that pariah is an outcast while misfit is an ill-fitting garment.

As a verb misfit is

(intransitive) to fit badly.

pariah

English

(wikipedia pariah)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An outcast.
  • A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
  • Someone in exile.
  • A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
  • A person who is rejected (from society or home).

    • Quotations

    * 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue *: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know. * 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14 *: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’ * 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html]) *: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.

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    * pop culture pariah

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    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.

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    Verb

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