Fit
Fit adjective - Meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation.
Usage example: clothing that is fit for horseback riding
Wrong
Wrong adjective - Not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation.
Usage example: has a knack for saying just the wrong thing
How words are described
| good | good fit | good wrong |
| nice | nice fit | nice wrong |
| best | best fit | best wrong |
| particular | particular fit | particular wrong |
| Other adjectives: better, right, perfect, original, obvious, actual, big, great, wrong, bad, drunken, strange. | ||
Common collocations
| description | fit description | wrong description |
| everyone | fit everyone | wrong everyone |
| roles | fit roles | wrong roles |
Both words in one sentence
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Not quite the wrong century, but Henry Harrison, the title character of The Extra Man, would have fit in much better in the '20s than The '80s.
Source: Born in the Wrong Century - If some element of a fit is shown to be wrong, even if it is drastically wrong in areas, some part of it must be accurate otherwise it would never have been accepted in the first place.
Source: Break the Scientist - However, the spelling was changed by either the local newspaper who dropped the silent "a" so that the name could fit on the masthead, or by a surveyor who spelled it wrong on the map he published.
Source: Inherited Illiteracy Title
Cite this Source
Wrong and Fit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/fit/wrong
Fit & Wrong. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/fit/wrong>.
Wrong or Fit. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/fit/wrong.
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