misconsider

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verb

To consider wrongly; to misjudge.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbmisconsider (third-person singular simple present misconsiders, present participle misconsidering, simple past and past participle misconsidered)

present singular third person misconsiders · participle present misconsidering · participle past misconsidered · past misconsidered

  1. ambitransitiveTo consider wrongly; to misjudge.

    Many of them, in fact, tend to misconsider the problem of production capacity.

    1999, Shahrukh A. Irani, Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems, page 566
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    Without such approaches we can only get a partial (and perhaps overly deterministic) view of discursive effects, which misconsider their processes of regulation.

    1996, Gill Aitken, Erica Burman, Pam Alldred, Psychology Discourse Practice: From Regulation to Resistance

    To misconsider the importance of a non-acousmatic experience in sound/music is, however, to neglect the possibility of how sources in sound contribute significantly to the communication of 'meaning' (particularly in the performance context).

    2012, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance, page 50

    I say this not of wives that are wise, But if it happens that they misconsider.

    2013, Conor McCarthy, Love Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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