ill-fitting

English

Alternative forms

• illfitting

Adjective

ill-fitting (comparative more ill-fitting, superlative most ill-fitting)

1. poorly fitted

   an ill-fitting pair of jeans

   • 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:

     There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors.

2. improperly matched; unsuitable
   • 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:

     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.

Translations

poorly fitted

• German: schlecht passend
• Maori: ango

improperly matched; unsuitable

• German: schlecht passend