MISLAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mislaid mean? 

• MISLAID (adjective)
  The adjective MISLAID has 1 sense:

1. lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place

  Familiarity information: MISLAID used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISLAID (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place

Synonyms:

mislaid; misplaced

Context example:

misplaced tickets

Similar:

lost (no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered)

 Context examples 

I would write to him myself, but have mislaid his direction; and, as I hinted above, am afraid he took something in my conduct amiss.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A key was mislaid, Betsey accused of having got at his new hat, and some slight, but essential alteration of his uniform waistcoat, which he had been promised to have done for him, entirely neglected.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I cannot be sure of the exact date, for some of my memoranda upon the matter have been mislaid, but it must have been towards the end of the first year during which Holmes and I shared chambers in Baker Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)