Ill-fitting

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    poorly fitted

    "an ill-fitting pair of jeans"

  2. 2
    improperly matched; unsuitable

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not the right size or shape wordnet

Example

More examples

"Her ill-fitting leggings gave her cameltoe."

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