misplaced

English

Verb

misplaced

1. simple past and past participle of misplace

Adjective

misplaced (comparative more misplaced, superlative most misplaced)

1. Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.

   I felt so misplaced at that party last night.

2. Lost; disoriented, put in the wrong place.

   I was looking for the supermarket but then I got misplaced.

Derived terms

• misplacedness

Translations

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Maori: kōkei Norwegian: Bokmål: feilplassert Nynorsk: feilplassert

References

• “misplaced”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “misplaced modifier”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• midplaces