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. |