Misdisplayed

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Presented or shown incorrectly or in error; to cause an item or information to appear in an inaccurate or unintended way; an occurrence of improper representation on a display or output device
2. Rendered in a faulty or mistaken manner; the act of exhibiting content in a flawed or erroneous format; a case where visual information is not properly conveyed or arranged
3. Shown with mistakes or inaccuracies; the event of misrepresenting data or images visually; a situation where the depiction on a screen or medium is flawed or distorted

Etymology: "Misdisplayed" is the past tense and past participle of "misdisplay," a verb built by attaching the prefix "mis-" to "display." The prefix comes from Old English and carries the sense of "wrongly" or "badly," as in "misjudge" or "misspell." Combined with "display," which descends from the Latin "displicare" meaning "to scatter" or "to unfold," the result describes something shown in a faulty or inaccurate way. The word is a straightforward combination rather than a historical coinage with a notable story. Its meaning follows directly from its parts: when a screen, sign, or label presents wrong information, it has been misdisplayed.

Synonyms: misrepresented, misshown, mispresented, incorrectly shown, falsely displayed

Antonyms: correctly displayed, properly shown, accurately presented, truthfully shown, rightly displayed