miscreate

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/mɪskɹɪˈeɪt/

verb

To create wrongly or poorly.

“miscreate titles”

OriginEnglish create ← Middle English mys- ← Old English mis- →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbmiscreate (third-person singular simple present miscreates, present participle miscreating, simple past and past participle miscreated)

present singular third person miscreates · participle present miscreating · participle past miscreated · past miscreated

  1. To create wrongly or poorly.
adjectivemiscreate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoletepoeticMiscreated; illegitimate; forged.

    miscreate titles

    1 more example

    With opening titles miscreate, whose right / Suits not in native colours with the truth;

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 16

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
malcreatemalcreated

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. Englishcreate
  10. Englishmiscreate

From mis- + create.

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Cite this entry
APA

miscreate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreate

MLA

“miscreate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “miscreate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/miscreate.

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