misanswer

verb
/mɪsˈænsə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English mysansweren, equivalent to mis- + answer.

  1. inherited from mysansweren

Definitions

  1. to answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly

  2. to answer scornfully or abusively

    • Also that no Fellow, within the lodge or without it, shall misanswer or reprove another, without cause.
  3. a bad, wrong, or incorrect answer

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misanswer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA