ILL-FITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-fitting mean? 

• ILL-FITTING (adjective)
  The adjective ILL-FITTING has 1 sense:

1. not the right size or shape

  Familiarity information: ILL-FITTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILL-FITTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not the right size or shape

Similar:

uncomfortable (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)

 Context examples 

Ill-fitting shoes often cause these problems.

(Foot Injuries and Disorders, NIH)

A benign fibrous hyperplasia in the oral mucosa caused by the prolonged wear of ill-fitting denture.

(Denture-Induced Fibrous Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

There were only three—the jib, foresail, and mainsail; and, patched, shortened, and distorted, they were a ridiculously ill-fitting suit for so trim a craft as the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Beside him stood his giant recruit, still clad in the home-spun and ill-fitting garments of the fuller of Lymington, with arms and legs shooting out of his scanty garb.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ill-fitting clothes, battered hands, and sunburned face remained; but these seemed the prison-bars through which she saw a great soul looking forth, inarticulate and dumb because of those feeble lips that would not give it speech.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)