mis-prefix
uk/mɪs-/us/mɪs-/added to the beginning of a verb or word formed from a verb, to show that the action referred to by the verb has been done wrongly or badly:
I never said that! You must have misheard me.
His misbehaviour eventually led to him being expelled from school.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
- speak too soon idiom
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