Rebel vs Misfit - What's the difference?
rebel | misfit |
To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
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 rebel and misfit
is that rebel is a confederate soldier while misfit is an ill-fitting garment.As a verb misfit is
(intransitive) to fit badly.rebel
English
(wikipedia rebel)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rebelle, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) rebeller, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
(rebell)Synonyms
* defyAntonyms
* obey * submitmisfit
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.