| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| misadjust | verb t. | To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. |
| misadvice | noun | Bad advice. |
| misadvise | verb t. | To give bad counsel to. |
| misaffect | verb t. | To dislike. |
| misaffirm | verb t. | To affirm incorrectly. |
| misallege | verb t. | To state erroneously. |
| misallied | adjective | Wrongly allied or associated. |
| misassign | verb t. | To assign wrongly. |
| misattend | verb t. | To misunderstand; to disregard. |
| misbecome | verb t. | Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. |
| misbehave | verb t. & i. | To behave ill; to conduct one’s self improperly; — often used with a reciprocal pronoun. |
| misbelief | noun | Erroneous or false belief. |
| misbeseem | verb t. | To suit ill. |
| misbestow | verb t. | To bestow improperly. |
| misbileve | noun | Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. |
| mischance | noun | Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap., To happen by mischance. |
| mischarge | verb t. | To charge erroneously, as in account., A mistake in charging. |
| mischosen | past participle | of Mischoose |
| mischoose | verb t. | To choose wrongly., To make a wrong choice. |
| miscreant | noun | One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever., One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch., Holding a false religious faith., Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous. |
| miscreate | adjective | Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles., To create badly or amiss. |
| misdating | present participle & vb. noun | of Misdate |
| misdemean | verb t. | To behave ill; — with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one’s self. |
| misdepart | verb t. | To distribute wrongly. |
| misderive | verb t. | To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect., To derive erroneously. |
| misdesert | noun | Ill desert. |
| misdirect | verb t. | To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one’s energies. |
| misdivide | verb t. | To divide wrongly. |
| misemploy | verb t. | To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc. |
| miserable | adjective | Very unhappy; wretched., Causing unhappiness or misery., Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner., Avaricious; niggardly; miserly., A miserable person. |
| miserably | adverb | In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. |
| misesteem | noun | Want of esteem; disrespect. |
| misfallen | past participle | of Misfall |
| misformed | imp. & past participle | of Misform |
| misgiving | present participle & vb. noun | of Misgive, Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. |
| misgotten | adjective | Unjustly gotten. |
| misgovern | verb t. | To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. |
| misground | verb t. | To found erroneously. |
| misgrowth | noun | Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth. |
| mishandle | verb t. | To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat. |
| mishappen | verb i. | To happen ill or unluckily. |
| misinform | verb t. | To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly., To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate. |
| misintend | verb t. | To aim amiss. |
| miskindle | verb t. | To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly. |
| mislaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Mislay |
| misleader | noun | One who leads into error. |
| misliking | present participle & vb. noun | of Mislike, Dislike; aversion. |
| mismanage | verb t. & i. | To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs. |
| misnumber | verb t. | To number wrongly. |
| mispickel | noun | Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite. |
| misplaced | imp. & past participle | of Misplace |
| mispolicy | noun | Wrong policy; impolicy. |
| mispraise | verb t. | To praise amiss. |
| misrecite | verb t. & i. | To recite erroneously. |
| misreckon | verb t. & i. | To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. |
| misreform | verb t. | To reform wrongly or imperfectly. |
| misregard | noun | Wrong understanding; misconstruction. |
| misrelate | verb t. | To relate inaccurately. |
| misrender | verb t. | To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. |
| misrepeat | verb t. | To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. |
| misreport | verb t. & i. | To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of., An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given. |
| misrepute | verb t. | To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously. |
| misseltoe | noun | See Mistletoe. |
| misshapen | adjective | Having a bad or ugly form. |
| missingly | adverb | With a sense of loss. |
| missioner | noun | A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. |
| misspeech | noun | Wrong speech. |
| misspense | noun | A spending improperly; a wasting. |
| misstayed | adjective | Having missed stays; — said of a ship. |
| mistaking | present participle & vb. noun | of Mistake, An error; a mistake. |
| mistaught | adjective | Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth., of Misteach |
| mistemper | verb t. | To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one’s head. |
| misthrive | verb i. | To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous. |
| mistigris | noun | Alt. of Mistigri |
| mistihead | noun | Mistiness. |
| mistiness | noun | State of being misty. |
| mistletoe | noun | A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. |
| mistonusk | noun | The American badger. |
| miswander | verb i. | To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray. |