What is another word for mislaid?

Pronunciation: [mɪslˈe͡ɪd] (IPA)

Mislaid is a word which means to lose something or forget where it was placed. Some synonyms for mislaid include misplaced, lost, disappeared, vanished, gone missing, concealed, hidden, and mislabeled. Misplaced refers to something that has been put in the wrong place, while lost means something that cannot be found. Disappeared is used when something has vanished without a trace, and vanished refers to something that has disappeared completely. Gone missing is used when something has disappeared without any trace, and concealed and hidden both refer to something that is out of sight or kept secret. Lastly, mislabeled refers to something that has been inaccurately labeled.

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What are the opposite words for mislaid?

Mislaid is a word that describes something that is lost or misplaced. Antonyms for this term include found, located, recovered, and retained. Found refers to something that has been discovered or located after having been lost. Located is used to describe something that has been found in a specific place. Recovered suggests that something that was lost has been found or retrieved. If something is retained, it means it is being kept or maintained. While there may be other antonyms for mislaid, these options provide a range of possibilities for describing the opposite of losing something.

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Usage examples for Mislaid

The fact is, a girl's motives in marrying are like a passport-apt to get mislaid.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
We've just mislaid him.
"Tangle Hold"
F. L. Wallace
My reward for having ascertained and proved those facts, was to be denied the prize, and to have my manuscript mislaid or lost or stolen!
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque

Famous quotes with Mislaid

  • I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the , which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was — the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
    Peter Cook
  • If there were only some mechanism (like Seurat's proposed system of painting, or the projected Universal Algebra that Gödel believes Leibnitz to have perfected and mislaid) for reasonably and systematically converting into poetry what we see and feel and are! When one reads the verse of people who cannot write poems — people who sometimes have more intelligence, sensibility, and moral discrimination than most of the poets — it is hard not to regard the Muse as a sort of fairy godmother who says to the poet, after her colleagues have showered on him the most disconcerting and ambiguous gifts, "Well, never mind. You're still the only one that can write poetry."
    Randall Jarrell
  • In the excitement and rigours of the game or battle with words and shapes, self-interest is mislaid and objective truth may often be revealed.
    Vernon Scannell
  • But I'd felt as if I'd pissed my life away in the same way that you can piss money away. I'd had a life, full of kids and wives and jobs and all the usual stuff, and I'd somehow managed to mislay it. No, you see, that's not right. I knew where my life was, just as you know where the money goes when you piss it away. I hadn't mislaid it at all. I'd spent it.
    Nick Hornby

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