Synonyms of misfits

misfits

noun

plural of misfit

as in mavericks

a person who is different from other people and who does not seem to belong in a particular group or situation

a comic book about a social misfit who discovers his superpower

Related Words

• mavericks
• bohemians
• outsiders
• freaks
• anomalies
• deviants
• loners
• eccentrics
• individualists
• nonconformists
• iconoclasts
• eight balls
• heretics
• oddballs
• weirdos
• free spirits
• enfants terribles
• freethinkers
• nuts
• lone wolves
• kooks
• crackpots
• screwballs
• bohos
• nonconformers
• lone rangers
• counterculturists
• codgers
• characters
• cranks
• aberrants
• crackbrains

Dissimilar Words

• followers
• supporters
• adherents
• sheep
• conformists
• conformers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of misfits

Her little acts of rebellion towards her tyrannical teachers attract the admiration of three other misfits and the four girls form an inseparable group. — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026

Drawn to a lakeside haven by a mysterious pregnant woman, a heartbroken drifter finds refuge with a group of eccentric misfits. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026

Here, misfits are welcome, and bric-a-brac is part of the appeal; the wonderfully bizarre name and devil-may-care attitude have been confusing (and delighting) first-timers for more than 70 years. — Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2026

These political misfits have found entry to the Big Time through the Democratic Socialists of America. — Nolan Finley The Detroit News, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

Students describe Oberlin as a kind of oasis, a place where high-school misfits can find a community of outsiders. — Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

Hickey is the charismatic traveling salesman who preaches a distorted vision of salvation to the social misfits and leftist radicals in a dive bar in lower Manhattan, modeled on the denizens of a favorite O’Neill hangout. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2026

As the misfits who make up Widow’s Bay react matter-of-factly to some of the creepy and strange goings-on around them, at the center of it all is Matthew Rhys as Mayor Tom Loftis. — Michael Schneider, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026

Beneath Lamb’s unkempt appearance, crude manners, noxious flatulence, and stinging remarks lies one of the sharpest minds in MI5 and a man fiercely protective of his brood of misfits. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026