misrelatedadj.
/ˌmɪsrᵻˈleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌmɪsrəˈleɪdᵻd/, /ˌmɪsriˈleɪdᵻd/ Chiefly Grammar.
Wrongly or inaccurately related or connected; mismatched. Esp. in misrelated participle n. = suspended participle n. at suspended adj. 4c.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > badly or unsuitably matched
unevenlyc1425
matchless1596
unfellowed1597
misgraffed1600
mismatched1638
ill-sorted1691
misgrafted1738
mismated1852
misrelated1881
1881 D. Masson De Quincey xi. 158 The benefit of his authority may be claimed for that apparent slovenliness of an unrelated or misrelated participle which..passes as consistent with the free genius of our uninflected language. But it jars on a classic sense of grammar, and is wholly unnecessary.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 July 3/1 Here are two flagrantly misrelated participles.
1935 Philos. Sci. 2 101 As an example of misrelated subordinate subjects [in the Dewey Decimal System] space permits only one among hundreds.
1972 in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. 256 The term dangling phrase is now probably the most popular for this lapse which has variously been called the unattached, unrelated, misrelated..participle (or phrase).
1994 H. L. Ulman Things, Thoughts, Words, & Actions iii. 102 Discussing the problem of misrelated modifiers in English..he notes that ‘this hazard..is greater in our language than in most others’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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