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Misaligned describes someone or something that is improperly adjusted or out of its proper form or position.��

Misaligned is frequently used in a figurative sense, especially to describe goals or ideas that don’t work together. For example, if your parents’ goal for you is to get good grades and your goal is to do as little schoolwork as possible, your parents’ and your goals are likely misaligned because the surest way to get good grades is to do the schoolwork.��

People might also be figuratively said to be misaligned, especially in relationships of all sorts. If you like staying up late and listening to loud music but your roommate likes going to bed early and a quiet room, the two of you might be misaligned—at least as roommates.

Literally, something that is misaligned is out of its normal orientation or order in some way. Picture a row of chairs. If all of them are in a straight line, we say that they are aligned. If some of the chairs are farther forward than others, we say that the row of chairs is misaligned.��

Two or more things that can be arranged in a specific way in relation to each other, such as in a line or on an angle, can be misaligned. In medicine, one of the most common uses of misaligned is in reference to bones not lining up correctly. When a bone is out of place in the body it can lead to stiffness, pain, and other problems.

Example: My teeth were so misaligned that I needed braces to fix them.

The first records of the term misaligned come from around the 1910s. It combines the term misalign, meaning “to line up badly or improperly,” and the suffix -ed, which indicates a condition or quality of the action of the verb. Misaligned effectively means “not in the correct line.”

What are some other forms related to misaligned?

• misalignment (noun)

What are some synonyms for misaligned?

• irregular
• unbalanced
• unequal
• uneven

What are some words that share a root or word element with misaligned?��

• align
• misalign
• alignment

What are some words that often get used in discussing misaligned?

• goals
• improper
• interests
• teeth
• values

Misaligned is frequently used figuratively to describe disagreement between people and concepts. It is also used to refer to literal misalignments.

Watching the Olympics is wild because you’ll watch someone do a triple backflip while spinning 360 degrees in midair and the commentator will be like “hmmm the left pinky toe was misaligned huge mistake”

— Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII)

I benched 315 for 8 reps last week and misaligned my lower back ribs in the process

— KAI WACHI (@KaiWachiMusic)

Very hard to name a single grassroots movement that hasn’t been co-opted by powerful people with an agenda misaligned with the movement’s origin.

— Geoff Lewis (@GeoffLewisOrg)

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Which of the following is NOT a synonym for misaligned?

A. level
B. uneven
C. disjointed
D. unbalanced