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mismean

verb

Etymology

From mis- + mean.

  1. derived from *mey-✻
  2. derived from *meyno-✻
  3. derived from *meyn-✻
  4. inherited from *mainijaną✻
  5. inherited from *mainijan✻
  6. inherited from mǣnan
  7. inherited from menen
  8. prefixed as mismean — “mis + mean”

Definitions

  1. To mean or intend wrongly

    To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.

    • If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter.
    • To mismean is not to mean; to mismean is to honor a meaning glimpsed but unmeant.

The neighborhood

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