Misaligned

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Not positioned correctly in relation to something else, resulting in a lack of proper alignment
2. Placed or adjusted so that parts do not line up as intended, causing misalignment
3. Arranged incorrectly so that elements fail to correspond or match as they should

Etymology: Align came into English from French "aligner", meaning to arrange things in a straight row. The French verb was built from "a" and "ligne" ("line"), and that word traces back to Latin "linea", a line, which was itself based on "linum", flax. A line was originally a thread. The prefix mis- is Old English, meaning "wrongly" or "amiss". It comes from a Germanic root that also gave English the verb "miss". Attached to align, it describes something that has gone wrong in its placement. This form is the past tense and past participle of the verb misalign, and its adjective use is the one that means "out of line".

Synonyms: off-center, displaced, out of alignment

Antonyms: aligned, centered, straightened