Other forms: misfits
A misfit is somebody who does not fit in where they are. A social misfit, felt like a misfit, misfits and outsiders.
It locates the problem in the match rather than the person, which is why the same person is a misfit in one place and unremarkable in another — the word says more about the setting than it appears to. It was first used of clothes that did not fit. Note that mis- here means badly.
1nounmisfitSomebody who does not fit in where they are.
“At his new school, he felt like a misfit who didn't belong anywhere.”
misfit is an outsider.
Middle English
fit — an adversary of equal power
English
fit
English, today
misfit
From mis- + fit. fit Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of unknown further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA