单词 | mismate |
释义 | mismate in British English (ˌmɪsˈmeɪt) verb (transitive) to mate, match, or marry unsuitably mismate in American English (mɪsˈmeɪt) verb transitive, verb intransitiveWord forms: misˈmated or misˈmating to mate badly or unsuitably mismate in American English (mɪsˈmeit) transitive verb or intransitive verbWord forms: -mated, -mating to mate unsuitably or wrongly Word origin [1890–95; mis-1 + mate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, honky-tonk, neoclassicism, phoneme, takedownmis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust |
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