out of place
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: out′ əv plās′
ipa: /ˌaʊ̯t əv ˈpleɪ̯s/
ipa: /ˌæɔ̯t əv ˈplæɪ̯s/
ipa: /ˌæʊ̯t əv ˈplæɪ̯s/
ipa: /ˌʌʊ̯t əv ˈples/
ipa: /ˌawʈ ov ˈpleːs/
Etymology: From out of (preposition) + place (“a fitting position”, noun).
Senses: examples: text: No wonder I couldn’t find it—it was out of place.
text: She came in out of the storm with not a hair out of place.
text: Amongst all those horsey people I felt quite out of place.
text: A Servant out of Place
ref: 1802, The Spirit of the Public Journals, volume 5, James Ridgway, page v:
text: A garden smoothly laid with turf, divided by thick hedges, with raised beds of bright flowers, such as we keep within walls in England, would have been out of place upon the side of this bare hill.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter VII, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 105:
text: Watch me dance, dance the night away (uh-huh)
I'll still keep the party runnin', not one hair out of place
ref: 2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album, performed by Dua Lipa:
synonyms: dislocated
dystopic
ectopic
heterotopic
malpositioned
misplaced
out of keeping with
antonyms: in keeping with
in place
glosses: Not in the proper arrangement or situation.
examples: text: Near-synonym: atopic
text: That remark was out of place.
text: [H]e ſo ſtudied with wordes & ſaynges brought furth ſo out of time & place to make ſporte and moue laughter, yͭ he himſelf was oftener laughed at thẽ his ieſtes were.
ref: [1551, Thomas More, “The Fyrste Boke of the Communycacion of Raphaell Hythlodaye Concernynge the Best State of a Commen Wealthe”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC, signatures E.i., verso – E.ii., recto:
text: Bare lyes vvith bold affections they can face, / But dint of argument is out of place.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “The Third Part”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 84:
text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:
text: [Marcus] Rashford showed the fearless streak [Gareth] Southgate so admires with his constant willingness to run at Brazil's defence with pace, even demonstrating on occasion footwork that would not have been out of place from members of England's illustrious opposition.
ref: 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “International Friendlies: England 0 – 0 Brazil”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2023:
synonyms: unseemly
antonyms: appropriate
seemly
glosses: Inappropriate for the circumstances.
Derived terms: word: out-of-place
word: out-of-placeness