[ noun ] someone unable to adapt to their circumstances <noun.person>
Misfit \Mis*fit"\, n. 1. The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
2. Something that fits badly, as a garment.
I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit. --Dickens.
3. A person who does not fit in comfortably with the surrounding situation or society; one who cannot conform or adjust to the circumstances in which he lives. [PJC]
Jan. 21 Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times on gun control: Few crimes more tragically illustrate the lunacy of this nation's gun fetish than the slayings of those five schoolchildren in California by a misfit wagging an AK-47 assault rifle.
Pettersson, a 42-year-old social misfit with a long record of crime, drunkenness and drug abuse, was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment.
"The scientist has been portrayed in the media as a social misfit," he said. "Projects like these show science is done by people with the right stuff, that it's fun and cool." But much of the year's exploration went unheralded.
It was an "incredible misfit," he said, ticking off Kennedy's accomplishments.
Republicans initially feared that the aristocratic Mr. Bush would be a cultural misfit with California voters, and he still isn't any Ronald Reagan, a major reason the contest there remains as close as it is.
France's system of education, admired worldwide f, time-proven methods, has become a source of concern in French homes, where it is increasinglyor its rigorous regarded as a misfit in the modern world.