fish out of water

noun

Roget 24: disagreement; discord, discordance; dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity etc. 83; incongruity, incongruence^†; discongruity^†, mesalliance; jarring etc. v.; dissension etc. 713; conflict etc. (opposition) 708; bickering, clashing, misunderstanding, wrangle.    disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality; disproportionateness etc. adj.^†; variance, divergence, repugnance.    unfitness etc. adj.; inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability etc. adj.; inconsistency, inconcinnity^†; irrelevancy etc. (irrelation) 10.    misjoining^†, misjoinder^†; syncretism^†, intrusion, interference; concordia discors [Lat.].    fish out of water.    ... show more

Roget 701: bungler; blunderer, blunderhead^†; marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot; butterfingers^†.    no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby^†, lubber, swab; clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot^†.    land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack etc. (deceiver) 548; lord of misrule.    sloven, slattern, trapes^†.    amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner) 541.    ... show more

Roget 185: displacement, elocation^†, transposition.    ejectment etc. 297^†; exile etc. (banishment) 893; removal etc. (transference) 270.    misplacement, dislocation etc. 61; fish out of water.    ... show more

Roget 83: nonconformity etc. 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity^†, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness etc. adj.^†; exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism^†, eccentricity, bizarrerie^†, oddity, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].    individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.    aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo etc. (qualification) 469.    nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch^†, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae [Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.], hermaphrodite.    [Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary^†; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk^†; unicorn; Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" [Othello]; teratology.    [unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.    ... show more

Moby thesaurus: Bohemian, anomaly, beatnik, crosspatch, deviant, dissenter, dropout, flower child, freak, heretic, hippie, individualist, inner-directed person, maverick, misfit, naysayer, nonconformist, nonjuror, oddball, original, sectarian, sectary, sport, swinger, ugly duckling, unconformist, yippie ... show more.

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