Ill-fitting
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ill-fitting is an adjective meaning Poorly fitted.
Meaning
Poorly fitted.
More Meanings
- Improperly matched; unsuitable.
Example Sentences
There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors.
The amateur stood in the glare of the spot, his brown shoes mismatched to the blue, ill-fitting suit. He rolled his eyes nervously toward the balcony.
It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged.
Word Forms
- illfitting
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mistailored, mismatched, missized, mistightened, mistucked, wrong.
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