ill-fitting
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.01 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors."
- "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."