Misplace
[mɪs'pleɪs] or [,mɪs'ples]
Definition
(verb.) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; 'misplaced modifiers'.
(verb.) place (something) where one cannot find it again; 'I misplaced my eyeglasses'.
Typist: Mason--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
Checker: Stan
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Mislay, put in a wrong place.
Typed by Aileen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PLACE]
Checker: Spenser
Definition
v.t. to put in a wrong place: to set on an improper object.—n. Misplace′ment.
Inputed by Betty
Examples
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Missis needn't smoke, said James with a frantic misplaced laugh, and thought the whole matter an excellent joke. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If you have really meant to give me a proof of your good opinion, though ill-timed and misplaced, I feel that I ought to thank you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yet it never appeared misplaced or forced, being always heartily simple, spontaneous, and genuine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Would that these grateful tears with which I now mourn hope misplaced, and love despised, might flow in peace for ever! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is something to know that my first confidence in you was not all misplaced. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- His reliance on the weather report was not misplaced, since the storm came with full force at noon. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checker: Otis