out of place
UK/ˌaʊ̯t əv ˈpleɪ̯s/
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Australia/ˌæɔ̯t əv ˈplæɪ̯s/
out of place prepositional phrase: not in the proper arrangement or situation.
Prepositional phrase
(idiomatic)
- Not in the proper arrangement or situation.
- No wonder I couldn’t find it—it was out of place.
- She came in out of the storm with not a hair out of place.
- Synonyms:
- dislocated, dystopic, ectopic, heterotopic, malpositioned, misplaced, out of keeping with
- Antonyms:
- in keeping with, in place
- Inappropriate for the circumstances.
- Near-synonym: atopic
- That remark was out of place.
- Antonyms:
- appropriate, seemly
out of place meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic
out of place in Tamil
- பொருத்தமற்ற, முரண்பாடான
out of place in Urdu
- out of place, ill-placed, misplaced, ill-timed
- بیجا bejā
out of place in Malayalam
- out of order, out of position, in disarray
- അസ്ഥാനത്ത്, സ്ഥാനം തെറ്റി, പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമമല്ലാതെ, കേടായി, കേടുപിടിച്ച്, പ്രവർത്തിക്കാതെ
- unsuitable, inappropriate, unseemly
- പൊരുത്തമില്ലാത്ത, യോജിച്ചതല്ലാത്ത, അനുചിതമായ, യഥോചിതമല്ലാത്ത, സമുചിതമല്ലാത്ത, മര്യാദകെട്ട
- out of one's element, incongruous, like fish out of water
- അസ്ഥാനത്തായ, ഘടകങ്ങൾ തമ്മിൽ പൊരുത്തമില്ലാത്ത, അസംഗതം, കരയിൽപിടിച്ചിട്ട മീൻപോലെ, ശരിയായ മാനസികനിലയിലല്ലാത്ത, സാധാരണ നിലയിലല്ലാത്ത
out of place in Arabic
- not in the proper arrangement or situation
- فِي غَيْرِ مَحَلِّهِ fī ḡayri maḥallihi
Examples of out of place in a sentence
- Amongst all those horsey people I felt quite out of place.
- A garden smoothly laid with turf, divided by thick hedges, with raised beds of bright flowers, such as we keep within walls in England, would have been out of place upon the side of this bare hill.1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter VII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 105:
- Bare lyes vvith bold affections they can face, / But dint of argument is out of place.1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […]...
- In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages...
Synonyms of out of place
Antonyms
Origin of out of place
From out of (preposition) + place (“a fitting position”, noun).
Words formed from out of place
Questions about out of place
- What does out of place mean?
- Out of place means not in the proper arrangement or situation.
- What is out of place in Tamil?
- Out of place in Tamil is பொருத்தமற்ற, முரண்பாடான. See Out of place meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use out of place in a sentence?
- Amongst all those horsey people I felt quite out of place.
- What part of speech is out of place?
- Out of place is a prepositional phrase.
- How do you pronounce out of place?
- Out of place is pronounced /ˌaʊ̯t əv ˈpleɪ̯s/ (UK).
Words near out of place in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: out of place (page history and authors); out of place (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بیجا (Urdu) (page history and authors); out of place (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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