misplaced

misplaced is the simple past and past participle of misplace.

Adjective

misplaced (comparative more misplaced, superlative most misplaced)

Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.
- I felt so misplaced at that party last night.
Lost; disoriented, put in the wrong place.
- I was looking for the supermarket but then I got misplaced.

misplace (third-person singular simple present misplaces, present participle misplacing, simple past and past participle misplaced)

(transitive) To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
- I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
(figuratively) To apply one's talents inappropriately.
- Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.2024 June 16, Senay Boztas, “‘The brain is very vulnerable’: Dutch cyclists urged to wear helmets as road deaths rise”, in The Guardian
To put something in the wrong location.
- Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.1808, R.s. Skillern, A New System of English Grammar, page 128

comparative	more misplaced
superlative	most misplaced

What does misplaced mean?: Misplaced means uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.
What is misplaced the simple past and past participle of?: Misplaced is the simple past and past participle of misplace.
What part of speech is misplaced?: Misplaced is an adjective.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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