Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z misoptimize To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements. misorchestrate To orchestrate badly; to arrange diverse elements in a way that fails to achieve the desired goal. misordain To improperly ordain into a ministry. misorder Disorder; irregularity. misordering The process or result of putting things in the wrong order. misorderly irregular; disorderly misordination Bad or wrong ordination; the act of misordaining. misorganization Bad or wrong organization. misorganize To organize incorrectly misorganized organized incorrectly misorient To orient badly or wrongly. misorientate To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction. misorientated Improperly orientated misorientation An incorrect or inappropriate orientation. misoriented oriented incorrectly misoscale Having a scale of between 40 metres and 4 kilometres (or 130 feet and 2 miles). misoshiru miso soup misosopher One who hates wisdom or knowledge. misosophical Of, or pertaining to, misosophy. misosophist Synonym of misosopher. misosophy A hatred of wisdom. misotheism Hatred of God or gods. misotheist Of or pertaining to misotheism misotheistic Hating God or gods; exhibiting misotheism. misown To own, claim, or appropriate wrongly or amiss; fail to own; disown. misoxeny Aversion to foreigners or strangers. misozoic life-hating misozuke A Japanese pickle (made from vegetables or other foods) preserved in miso. mispace To do (something) at the wrong pace or speed. mispack To pack badly or wrongly. mispackage To package badly or wrongly. mispaddle To paddle incorrectly. mispage To paginate incorrectly. mispaginated paginated wrongly mispagination incorrect pagination mispaging The incorrect arrangement of pages in a document. mispaint To paint incorrectly; paint falsely or in wrong colours. mispair To pair incorrectly; to mismatch in twos. mispaired Describing a chain of nucleic acid containing nucleotides that are not complementary to those in the corresponding position of the other chain. mispairing An incorrect pairing. misparaphrase To paraphrase incorrectly. misparented Badly or wrongly raised by one's parents. mispark To park badly or wrongly. misparked Badly or wrongly parked. misparrot To parrot incorrectly; to make an imperfect attempt to repeat what one has heard. misparse To parse incorrectly. misparsing An instance of incorrect parsing. mispart To part or divide badly. mispass A bad or wrong pass of the ball. mispassion Wrong passion or feeling. mispaste To paste incorrectly. mispatch To patch wrongly. mispattern To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern. mispatterned Having an incorrect pattern mispatterning The formation of an incorrect pattern mispaved Having broken or uneven pavement. mispay To pay incorrectly, or to the wrong person. mispayment incorrect payment mispeg To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to. mispen To pen badly or wrongly. misper A missing person. misperceive To perceive erroneously. misperceiver One who misperceives. misperception An incorrect perception. misperceptive Perceiving incorrectly. misperf A misperforated stamp. misperforated Incorrectly perforated. misperforation Bad or incorrect perforation. misperform To perform badly or wrongly. misperformance incorrect performance misperformer One who misperforms. misperson To assail with abusive language. mispersuade To persuade wrongly; to persuade into doing something wrong mispersuasion A false persuasion; a wrong notion or opinion. misphase To put or become out of phase. misphenotype To phenotype incorrectly misphenotyped phenotyped incorrectly misphrase To phrase incorrectly. misphrasing An instance of something being phrased badly or wrongly. mispick A defect in woven fabric in which a yarn across the warp is in the wrong place. mispickel The mineral arsenopyrite mispile To pile badly. mispin To pin incorrectly. mispitch To sing or play one or more notes at the wrong pitch. misplace To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. misplaceable Able to be misplaced. misplaced Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings. misplacedly In a misplaced manner; in the wrong place. misplacedness The quality of being misplaced. misplacement Bad placement. misplacer One who misplaces something. misplacing Incorrect placement. misplan To plan badly or incorrectly. misplant To plant badly or wrongly. misplate To plate incorrectly. (any sense) misplay To play incorrectly or poorly. misplead To plead amiss wrongly; to make an error in pleading. mispleading An error in pleading. misplease To fail in pleasing; displease. mispledge To pledge foolishly or in error. misplot To incorrectly mark the position of. mispluck To pluck incorrectly. misplug To plug incorrectly. mispoint To point wrongly mispolarization Incorrect polarization mispolarize To cause, or to undergo mispolarization mispolarized Subject to mispolarization mispolicy Wrong or ill-advised policy. mispolyadenylation Faulty polyadenylation, typically of mRNA misportray To portray inaccurately. misportrayal An inaccurate portrayal. misposition To position incorrectly. mispositioned Wrongly positioned mispositioning Wrong positioning. mispossess To possess illicitly, as by theft. mispost To post badly or wrongly. misposting A bad or wrong posting. mispour To make a mistake while pouring. mispractice Wrong or bad practice; misconduct mispraise To praise falsely, injudiciously, or without good reason. mispreach To preach a mistaken or erroneous sermon. mispredict To predict incorrectly. misprediction An instance of mispredicting; an incorrect prediction. mispredictor One who predicts something incorrectly. misprejudiced Holding a bad or wrong prejudice. mispreparation Bad or wrong preparation. misprepare To prepare badly; to provide inadequate or inappropriate preparation. misprescribe To prescribe (a medicine) erroneously. misprescription The erroneous prescription of a medicine. mispresent To present badly or wrongly. mispreserve To preserve badly or to preserve something that does not merit preservation. mispress A vinyl record with incorrect content pressed, due to a manufacturing mistake. mispressing An instance of a record being pressed incorrectly. misprice To price incorrectly or unsuitably. mispricing A situation in which something has been mispriced misprime To prime incorrectly. mispriming Faulty priming misprincipled Having bad or wrong principles or moral values. misprint An accidental mistake in print. misprinter One who prints incorrectly. misprints A crossword puzzle in which clues or answers have one letter changed. misprioritize To prioritize inappropriately. misprised Despised, unappreciated. misprision Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this. misprizal misprize; contempt misprize To despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue. misprobe To probe incorrectly. misproceeding Wrong or irregular proceeding. misprocess To process incorrectly. misproclaim To proclaim wrongly, such as by proclaiming false information, or proclaiming in the wrong manner.