mislodged
Put somewhere wrong
Mislodged means placed or positioned incorrectly, or dislodged from a proper location.
Something mislodged has ended up where it shouldn't be, whether through error or accident.
The bullet had mislodged in his shoulder rather than passing through.
A mislodged decimal point threw off the entire calculation.
The term suggests something that was meant to be lodged or fixed in one place but wound up somewhere else.
Moved from fixed position
- shiftedChanged place or position
- displacedShifted from proper location
- unseatedRemoved from position
- movedChanged location or felt
jarred · dislocation · ejected · expelled · evicted · ousted · uprooted · deracinated
Tilted from true
- off-centerNot at the midpoint
- misalignedNot properly positioned
- crookedBent or dishonest
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
mispositioned · out-of-place · misoriented · tilted · maladjusted · disarranged · off-kilter · canted
Put in wrong location
- misfiledIncorrectly stored or categorized
- lostUnable to navigate
- astrayOff the right path
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
gone · vanished · mislocated · misrouted · misdirected · misdelivered · overlooked · forgotten
dislodged
Moved from fixed position
moved · jarred · dislocation · ejected · expelled · evicted · ousted · uprooted · deracinated · loosened
askew
Tilted from true
- off-centerNot at the midpoint
- misalignedNot properly positioned
- crookedBent or dishonest
skewed · mispositioned · out-of-place · misoriented · tilted · maladjusted · disarranged · off-kilter · canted · slanted
misplaced
Put in wrong location
missing · gone · vanished · mislocated · misrouted · misdirected · misdelivered · overlooked · forgotten · unlocatable