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unaligned

unaligned

1 5.1
Not in agreement or not in a straight line with something else
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnəˈlaɪnd/
: 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
8 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
decentered
vsunaligned
1 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
1 5.1

Placed away from the middle so it looks unbalanced

speaks to disagreement or lack of straight arrangement
agley
vsunaligned
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Not straight or level, often tilted

describes disagreement or simply not in a straight line
noncollinear
vsunaligned
  • Specialized
1 7.9

Points that do not all lie on the same straight line

is about general lack of agreement or linear arrangement

Antonyms

aligned
57 4.2

In agreement with a group or idea

How Aligned

allied
6 4.3
aligned
57 4.2
unaligned
1 5.1
opposed
643 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'.