out of its element

adjective

Roget 24: disagreeing etc. v.; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war; hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable, inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional etc. 83; intrusive, incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated^†; inharmonious, unharmonious^†; inconsonant, unconsonant^†; divergent, repugnant to.    inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable; inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming; illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos [Fr.], inadmissible; inapposite etc. (irrelevant) 10.    uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched, misjoined^†, misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible, incommensurable, uncommensurable^†; unsympathetic.    out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint, out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds with, at variance with.    ... show more

Roget 185: displaced etc. v.; unplaced, unhoused^†, unharbored^†, unestablished^†, unsettled; houseless^†, homeless; out of place, out of a situation; in the wrong place.    misplaced, out of its element.    ... show more

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