Ill-fitting
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 poorly fitted
"an ill-fitting pair of jeans"
- 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 not the right size or shape wordnet
Example
More examples"Her ill-fitting leggings gave her cameltoe."
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