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unaligned

unaligned

5.1
Not in agreement or not in a straight line with something else
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnəˈlaɪnd/
translation icon : desalineado
  • Her goals were unaligned with the company's mission, leading to misunderstandings.

Examples

  • The furniture looked strange in the room because it was unaligned with the walls.

  • The artist's sculptures appeared chaotic, as they were intentionally unaligned with traditional forms.

  • It's just failure after failure of throwing fire housing money at an incompetent unaligned bureaucracy.

  • UNALIGNED OBJECTIVES

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

off-kilter
vsunaligned
  • Informal
7 7.5

Not straight or level and a little strange

focuses on lack of agreement or literal misplacement in line
nonaligned
vsunaligned
1 6.7

Not part of any party or group and not supporting either side

means lack of agreement or absence of straight arrangement
unarranged
vsunaligned
1 4.1

Not put in order and left messy

refers to disagreement or to not being in a straight line
noncollinear
vsunaligned
  • Specialized
7.9

Points that do not all lie on the same straight line

is about general lack of agreement or linear arrangement
decentered
vsunaligned
6.5

Not placed in the middle, making it off-center

focuses on being out of agreement or not in a straight line
uncentered
vsunaligned
  • US
5.1

Placed away from the middle so it looks unbalanced

speaks to disagreement or lack of straight arrangement
agley
vsunaligned
  • Archaic
9.9

Not straight or level, often tilted

describes disagreement or simply not in a straight line

Antonyms

aligned
4.2

In agreement with a group or idea

How Aligned

allied
1 4.3
aligned
4.2
unaligned
5.1
opposed
1 3.5

Surface Forms

unaligned positive

Morphology

unaligned = aligned (transparent) = un + align + ed

The adjective 'aligned' (align + -ed) is clear and adding the productive negation 'un-' yields the straightforward meaning 'not aligned'.

Etymology

Unaligned comes from the part un- meaning 'not' and align meaning 'to line up', like the simple word line, so it means 'not in a line' or 'not agreeing'.