MISLAID Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

mislaid 1 of 2

adjective

as in missing

no longer possessed a traveler looking for his mislaid passport

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mislaid

2 of 2

verb

past tense of mislay

as in lost

to be unable to find or have at hand I'm always mislaying my bus pass

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Recent Examples of mislaid

Adjective

He also was charged with misdemeanor counts of theft of mislaid property. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025

Verb

Broadening the base has always been the plan, but its been mislaid for 80 years. — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 So many things, dropped and lost and mislaid, twinkling all over the place like a museum/ junkyard. — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025 Too, the suspicion that it could not be done again, that the ability to pull it off had been mislaid. — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Assistant coach Ryan Jensen, the Fort Morgan native and a Super Bowl champ with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, mislaid his hat before the game and had to borrow someone else’s. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2025

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Adjective

Body-camera video obtained by CBS News Atlanta shows HeeHaw the donkey galloping toward officers before a Cedartown police officer shoots him during a search for a missing girl.

— CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
The assemblies also feature NFC identification, and the printer detects whether the platform is correctly installed or missing, providing another useful check before printing.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of missing

Verb

His candidate lost in December 2018 to Kabila's long-term political rival, Tshisekedi.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026
Ryder’s Law was reintroduced this year after another carriage horse collapsed and died in Central Park, and in a separate incident, tourist Romanch Mahajan, 18, died after falling off a carriage after the operator lost control.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of lost

Adjective

An America lost to time, remembered in photos The mall’s future is now determined — and its past reveals a version of America perhaps long gone.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2026
Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026

Definition of gone

Adjective

The idea that death is a spectacle, however, and intended for public consumption is in line with their misplaced ideals.

— Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 12 Oct. 2026
That was written for a world where the consequences of misplaced trust arrived slowly enough to correct.

— Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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