Misfit
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone unable to adapt to their circumstances
WiktionaryText
Verb
Noun
- An ill-fitting garment.
- A badly adjusted person.
- She was very unhappy in Iraq and a misfit in the Army.
- An outcast.
- The MBA was a misfit when stuck in a meeting with the programmers.
Quotations
- "Just to be on the safe side, the The Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges." [Adrian Blomfield, "Has Russia got a new Stalin?", Telegraph, 2008-03-01 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/29/wmoscow329.xml]