miscatalogued
Incorrectly sorted away
Miscatalogued means wrongly classified or indexed in a catalog system.
Library books, museum specimens, and archival documents get miscatalogued when assigned incorrect call numbers, categories, or descriptions: The manuscript lay undiscovered for decades, miscatalogued as a minor legal document.
Also spelled miscataloged.
Incorrectly stored or categorized
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- misclassifiedSorted into wrong category
- mislabeledIncorrectly marked or tagged
- misattributedIncorrectly assigned origin
inaccuracy · oversight · blunder · mistake · discrepancy · omission · erroneous · misprint
Unable to navigate
- displacedShifted from proper location
- untraceableImpossible to follow back
- misdirectedSent the wrong way
- strayWander from course
overlooked · hidden · undiscovered · buried · scattered · mislocated · misrouted · misfiled
Stored historical records
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
- shelvesHorizontal storage platforms
- repositoryPlace for storing things
- collectionGathered set of items
volumes · reference · librarian · books · accession · classification · Dewey · metadata
Lack of order
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorganizationAbsence of systematic arrangement
- jumbleConfused disorderly collection
- muddleDisordered, bewildered state
chaos · clutter · inefficiency · mismanagement · tangle · mess · dishevelment · hodgepodge
misfiled
Incorrectly stored or categorized
- incorrectNot accurate or true
- misclassifiedSorted into wrong category
- mislabeledIncorrectly marked or tagged
misattributed · inaccuracy · oversight · blunder · mistake · discrepancy · omission · erroneous · misprint · typo
lost
Unable to navigate
- displacedShifted from proper location
- untraceableImpossible to follow back
- misdirectedSent the wrong way
stray · overlooked · hidden · undiscovered · buried · scattered · mislocated · misrouted · misfiled · misassigned
archive
Stored historical records
- indexAlphabetical guide to contents
- shelvesHorizontal storage platforms
- repositoryPlace for storing things
collection · volumes · reference · librarian · books · accession · classification · Dewey · metadata · database
disarray
Lack of order
- confusionMental disorientation or bewilderment
- disorganizationAbsence of systematic arrangement
- jumbleConfused disorderly collection
muddle · chaos · clutter · inefficiency · mismanagement · tangle · mess · dishevelment · hodgepodge · snafu
catalog, catalogue, cataloged, catalogued, cataloging, cataloguing, catalogs, catalogues, cataloger