misadvised

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adjective

Showing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.

OriginEnglish advised ← Middle English mys- ← Old English mis- →
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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of misadvise
adjectivemisadvised (comparative more misadvised, superlative most misadvised)

comparative more misadvised · superlative most misadvised

  1. obsoleteShowing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.

    Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]

    c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*missaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*missa-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*missa-
  6. Old Englishmis-
  7. Middle Englishmys-
  8. Englishmis-
  9. Englishadvised
  10. Englishmisadvised

From mis- + advised.

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APA

misadvised. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadvised

MLA

“misadvised.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadvised. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misadvised,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misadvised.

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