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ill-placed

ill-placed adjective: badly, mistakenly, or unfortunately placed.

Adjective

ill-placed (comparative more ill-placed, superlative most ill-placed)

  1. Badly, mistakenly, or unfortunately placed.
    • I have watched him read, first earnestly; then the page has been closed unconsciously, and he remained lost in a gloomy reverie. I have opened the volume when he left the room, and found that the record was of ill-placed affection.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Letter”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 289

Forms of ill-placed

comparativemore ill-placed
superlativemost ill-placed

Questions about ill-placed

What does ill-placed mean?
Ill-placed means badly, mistakenly, or unfortunately placed.
What part of speech is ill-placed?
Ill-placed is an adjective.

Words near ill-placed in the dictionary

  1. ill-named
  2. ill-natured
  3. ill-naturedly
  4. ill-naturedness
  5. ill-omened
  6. ill-placed
  7. ill-posed
  8. ill-prepared
  9. ill-proportioned
  10. ill-qualified
  11. ill-received

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