"outmatched" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to indicate that someone is not equal to another person or thing in terms of ability, power, or resources. For example: The champion athlete was outmatched by the younger, faster contender.
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Well before that, the liberals, having witnessed Dean's transformation into a practiced Clintonian triangulator, grasped that they were outmatched.
The pleasure of seeing Stanwyck's Eve deliver Henry Fonda's character a comeuppance for his straitlaced self-regard is only just outmatched by the inevitable pleasure of their reconciliation.
The Mail's quick and entirely uncharacteristic apology seemed to acknowledge that it knew itself to be outmatched.
Even some of the state's most prominent opponents of fracking concede as much, and, in any case, their concerns are outmatched by the prospect of so much oil money.
Still, the worst abuse didn't come from public authority figures like Starr, who was outmatched in his sickly blend of prudishness and prurience only by the members of the federal grand jury, who made Lewinsky retread the same sad ground in their own interrogation of her.
To soften the blow, the President told her that he would authorize the sale of sixty more F-16s — planes desperately needed by Pakistan, whose Air Force was outmatched by India's.
Of course, by the time viewers heard him say that, they had already paid as much as $69.99 for the privilege of seeing Pacquiao face an opponent that just about every expert agreed was outmatched.
Finding himself in most cases hopelessly outmatched in conventional military strength, the terrorist circumvents the military forces of the opponent & directly attacks the opponent's society--a more readily available target.
But the border guards were outmatched by a surging number of Mexican nationals seeking to escape their own depressed economy.
(The sense that the C.P.S. may be outmatched in the arena of publicity was confirmed this morning, when the headline "Major Supplier of Potatoes to Sainsbury's Convicted of Corruption" supplanted news of Brooks's arrest on its blog).
