Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
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The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
One who interprets erroneously.
To join unfitly or improperly.
An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
A wrong or unjust judgment.
To keep wrongly.
Not to know.
A little bagpipe.
To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
To have a mistaken notion of or about.
Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.
One who mislays.
A fine rain; a thick mist; a mizzle; a drizzle.
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
One who leads into error.
Leading astray; delusive.
To learn wrongly.
imp. p. p. of Mislead.
See Maslin.
See Mistletoe.
To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
One who dislikes.
Dislike; aversion.
See Maslin.
To live amiss.
To lodge amiss.
Ill luck; misfortune.
Raining in very small drops; drizzling.
To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
One who manages ill.
To mark wrongly.
To match unsuitably.
Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics.
To mate wrongly or unsuitably; to mismatch; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
To measure or estimate incorrectly.
Wrong measurement.
To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
To misname.
To number wrongly.
To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.
Mistaken obedience; disobedience.
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
A hater of marriage.
Hatred of marriage.
misogynous.
misogyny.
A woman hater. Contrast misandrist.
Hating women; having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.
Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.
Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.
Wrong opinion.
Irregularity; disorder.
Irregular; disorderly.
Wrong ordination.
Hatred of God.
To paint ill, or wrongly.
Wrong passion or feeling.
To dissatisfy.
See Misspell, Misspend, etc.
See Misspense.
Erroneous perception.
To persuade amiss.
A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.
Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
To err in pleading.
An error in pleading.
To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
Wrong policy; impolicy.
Wrong practice.
To praise amiss.
To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.
A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.
To mistake.
To slight or undervalue.
Wrong or irregular proceding.
To make a false profession of.
To pronounce incorrectly.
Wrong or improper pronunciation.
To give wrong or unesthetic proportions to; to join without due proportion; as, the legs were misrpoportioned to the body.
An improper or unesthetic proportion.
Viciously proud.
To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.
Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.
To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
To raise or excite unreasonable.
To rate erroneously.
To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
To receive wrongly.
An inaccurate recital.
To recite erroneously.
To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.
An erroneous computation.
To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.
Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
To relate inaccurately.
Erroneous relation or narration.
False religion.
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.
To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.
To make an incorrect or untrue representation.
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
One who misrepresents.
To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
The act, or the result, of misruling.
Unruly.
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