misalign

verb

mis·​align ˌmis-ə-ˈlīn 

misaligned; misaligning

transitive + intransitive

: to align badly or incorrectly

… the rear coach loosened an axle crossing a rough switch frog, misaligning the wheels so that they came off the track and bumped along the ties …

—Terry Pindell

Even minor movement can cause the cords in the wireless charger to misalign and the charging to stop.

—Rishabh Jain

misaligned

ˌmis-ə-ˈlīnd 

adjective

… the lack of stereopsis results from conflicting input reaching the brain from the two misaligned eyes …

—Susan R. Barry

Worn wheels, defective axles, … and misaligned rails, as well as human error, also cause derailments.

—Ralph Vartabedian

Examples of misalign in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So career mobility becomes reactive, disconnected from current momentum and misaligned with aspiration. —Saurabh Jain, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025

The threat is the ease with which new models can be wrapped, misaligned and shipped before the next news cycle. —Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 7 May 2025

Region-specific functions will be consolidated to increase functionality, redundant offices will be removed, and non-statutory programs that are misaligned with America's core national interests will cease to exist. —Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025

Finally, none of this works if your marketing and sales teams are misaligned. —Deepak Bansal, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1908, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for misalign

• acridine
• alkaline
• andesine
• anodyne
• anticline
• arginine
• asinine
• atropine
• benzidine
• borderline
• byzantine
• calamine