Misfit: meaning in English

adjective

Departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behaviour.

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Deviant behaviour

noun

A deviant person or thing.

Usage examples:

Killers, deviants, and those whose actions are beyond most human comprehension

adjective

Differing from the accepted standard

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.

Usage examples:

He noted her eccentric appearance

noun

A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour.

Usage examples:

He's seen as a local eccentric

adjective

Strange or unusual, sometimes in an amusing way

Usage examples:

Eccentric behavior, she was an elderly eccentric who lived with 25 cats., [ u ] although his reputa…

noun

A person or thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule.

Usage examples:

He always plays top tunes, and tonight was no exception

noun

Something that is not included, or the action of not including something

Usage examples:

[ c ] we don’t usually accept late applications, but since you were so sick i’ll make an exception …

noun

Someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list, or that does not behave in the expected way

Usage examples:

Most of these states have moderate property taxes; arizona's very high business property taxes are …

phrase

A person in a completely unsuitable environment or situation.

Usage examples:

Senior bankers are fish out of water when it comes to international lending

idiom

Someone who is uncomfortable in a specific situation

Usage examples:

I felt like a fish out of water at my new school.

noun

A very unusual and unexpected event or situation.

Usage examples:

The teacher says the accident was a total freak

verb

Behave or cause to behave in a wild and irrational way, typically because of the effects of extreme emotion or drugs.

Usage examples:

He freaked out and smashed the place up

adjective

Extremely unusual or unlikely

Usage examples:

She died in a freak automobile accident., a freak midsummer hailstorm caught us all by surprise., m…

noun

A person who is independent and self-reliant.

Usage examples:

A rugged individualist driven to succeed

adjective

Relating to or characterized by the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

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Individualist attitudes

noun

An unorthodox or independent-minded person.

Usage examples:

He's the maverick of the fashion scene

adjective

Unorthodox.

Usage examples:

A maverick detective

noun

A person who thinks and acts independently of and differently from others

Usage examples:

She is considered a political maverick.

noun

A member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

Usage examples:

Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

adjective

Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

Usage examples:

Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

noun

A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

noun

A strange or eccentric person.

Usage examples:

She was seen as a bit of an oddball

adjective

Strange; bizarre.

Usage examples:

Oddball training methods

noun

A person whose behavior is unusual and strange

noun

A person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system.

Usage examples:

A western outlier in the andaman archipelago

noun

A fact, figure, piece of data, etc. that is very different from all the others in a set and does not seem to fit the same pattern

Usage examples:

Eliminating one or two obvious outliers, charges range from 0.45% per annum to 3.67% per annum., th…

noun

A person who does not belong to a particular organization or profession.

Usage examples:

To the outsider, glitzy fashion shows may seem an outrageous extravagance

noun

A person who is not involved with a particular group of people or an organization, or who does not live in a particular place

Usage examples:

I moved here three years ago, but i still feel like an outsider.

noun

Someone who is paid by a company or organization to do a particular job, but who is not a permanent employee

Usage examples:

In 2009, the company hired an outsider with marketing experience in an effort to revive its busines…

noun

Another term for weirdo.

noun

A person whose dress or behaviour seems strange or eccentric.

Usage examples:

The streets are dangerous and there are too many weirdos around

noun

A person who you think is strange and who makes you uncomfortable

Usage examples:

That guy is a real weirdo.