misplaced

mis·place (m

s-pl

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tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es

a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence.

b. To mislay: I misplaced my wallet.

2. To bestow (confidence, for example) on an improper, unsuitable, or unworthy person or idea.

mis·placement n.

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Adj.	1.	misplaced - put in the wrong place or position; "She was penalized for a spelling mistake or a misplaced accent" disarranged - having the arrangement disturbed; not in order; "her disarranged hair"
	2.	misplaced - lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place; "the mislaid hat turned up eventually"; "misplaced tickets" mislaid lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"

misplaced

adjective

1. misguided, unwise, ill-advised, ill-judged, misconceived, ill-considered a telling sign of misplaced priorities

2. lost, missing, mislaid, nowhere to be found a misplaced wallet

Translations

misplaced [ˌmɪsˈpleɪst] ADJ

1. (= inappropriate) [confidence, trust] → inmerecido; [enthusiasm] → que no viene a cuento; [good humour] → fuera de lugar, inoportuno
I realize now that my confidence/trust in you was misplaced → ahora me doy cuenta de que me equivoqué al confiar en ti
a misplaced sense of duty/loyalty → un sentido desacertado or equivocado del deber/de la lealtad

2. (= wrongly positioned) [accent, comma] → mal colocado, puesto en el lugar equivocado

misplaced [ˌmɪsˈpleɪst] adj

[confidence, optimism, loyalty] → déplacé(e)
to be misplaced [feeling] → être déplacé(e)

[priorities] → mal hiérarchisé(e)

(= put in the wrong place) [letter, accent] → mal placé(e)

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anachronic
anachronistic
Anachronous
dangling modifier
dangling participle
disordered
displace
foreign object damage
heterotopia
heterotopism
heterotopy
Inappropriateness
lose
lost
misguided
mislaid
mislay
misplace
misplaced modifier

Perhaps you may be ashamed to meet me, as you were before, but you NEED not feel like that--such shame would be misplaced.

Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

Then a small gentleman, very young-looking but very malignant, began to say that it would probably be agreeable to the marshal of the province to give an account of his expenditures of the public moneys, and that the misplaced delicacy of the members of the committee was depriving him of this moral satisfaction.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Women, more especially -- in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted, wronged, misplaced, or erring and sinful passion -- or with the dreary burden of a heart unyielded, because unvalued and unsought came to Hester's cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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