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adjective

mismatched adj.

Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics. (Narrower terms: ill-sorted, incompatible, mismated, unsuited; odd, unmatched, unmated, unpaired) Also See: incompatible. Antonym: matched.

Of very unequal ability; of contestants in a contest. The less able contestant is said to be overmatched or outclassed.

Synonyms: uneven, not fairly matched.

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Etymology of 'Mismatched'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mismatched" Quotes from Famous Books

... as to why a purely innocent Opdyke was chosen as an object of wrathful vengeance. Then he immediately went panicky. That's the erratic strain in him. Up to a certain point, he's logical; then he gets into a seething mass of mismatched syllogisms. In this case, if Providence was good, and you also were good, then Providence wouldn't have knocked you into a cocked hat. No matter now about the sympathy of my phrase; I want you to get the gist of the whole situation. Well, he turned and twisted that around into form AAA, EAE, ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... he knew, and the events that he had experienced Out There, were like myths, now. How could he ever put Here and There together, and unite the mismatched halves of himself and his experience? He had been born on Earth, the single home of his kind from the beginning. How could he ever even have been ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... procession, mouths working. A fat man in a rumpled suit and a panama hat squeezed to the front, stood picking his teeth. Somehow, he seemed out of place among the others. Behind the spectators, the store fronts looked normal, dowdy brick and mismatched glass and oxidizing aluminum, dusty windows and cluttered displays of cardboard, a faded sign that read TODAY ONLY—PRICES SLASHED. To Brett's left the sidewalk stretched, empty. To his right the crowd was packed close, the shout rising and falling. Now a rank of blue-suited policemen ...

— It Could Be Anything • John Keith Laumer

... up like black stalagmites from the comers of his cavernous mouth, was accompanied by two nondescript figures, who seemed to be embarrassed more by the fact that they had been recently cleansed and shaved than by their rough red shirts and mismatched coats and trousers. ...

— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises. It also emitted a strikingly mismatched couple. ...

— Fee of the Frontier • Horace Brown Fyfe