单词 | misestimate |
释义 | misestimaten. A wrong estimate or valuation; miscalculation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] misdoom?a1425 misdeemingc1450 misdeem1470 misjudgement1526 misjudging1526 misreckoning1540 miscast1599 misratinga1626 miscalculation1720 misestimation1809 misdecision1827 misappreciation1838 misestimate1843 mismeasurement1859 unappreciation1886 misvaluation1903 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. v. iv. 398 A positive mis-estimate of evidence actually had. 1852 H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. vii. 363 The presumption of this..intellect, its total misestimate of the exigencies of the great problems with which it had to deal. 1930 Amer. Econ. Rev. 20 691 The variations from exact equilibrium are..due to crudeness of the above methods.., and varying mis-estimates of earnings and prospects. 1986 Bull. Atomic Scientists May 2/1 Analyst Jeffrey Richelson looks at these claims in the light of past U.S. intelligence estimates, and misestimates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misestimatev. transitive. To estimate wrongly, make a false estimate of. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] mistakea1393 mischoosec1422 misaccounta1425 misweigha1475 mistakea1500 misjudge1526 misesteema1595 miscountc1600 misdoom1609 misvalue1614 misrepute1629 misratea1641 mismeasure1743 mistake?a1786 misappreciate1828 misestimate1841 misgauge1870 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 75 I believe we mis-estimate Mahomet's faults even as faults. 1849 J. Cumming Christ Receiving Sinners vi. 124 If you see a person mis-estimating every thing around him, thinking..that rags are royal purple. 1910 Amer. Hist. Rev. 15 919 The present volume..confirms one's fears that the material was sadly misestimated. 1996 Daily Tel. 15 May 25/2 By Christmas ‘it became clear that we'd mis-estimated the difficulty of some parts of the project’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1843v.1841 |
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