英和和英

語源

mis- +‎ suit

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈsuːt/, /mɪsˈsjuːt/

動詞

missuit (三人称単数 現在形 missuits, 現在分詞 missuiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 missuited)

1. (transitive) To fail to suit.
   • 1852, Sir Francis Bond Head, A Faggot of French Sticks (volume 1, page 121)

     I now discovered — as in hasty love matches has but too often proved to be the case — that my guide and I were unhappily missuited to each other, and the consequence was we had at least six quarrels […]

   • 1864, Robert Browning, Mr. Sludge, "The Medium"'

     Each states the law and fact and face o' the thing
     Just as he'd have them, finds what he thinks fit,
     Is blind to what missuits him, just records
     What makes his case out, quite ignores the rest.