Meanings
present singular third person misdiagrams · participle present misdiagramming · participle past misdiagrammed · past misdiagrammed
- To diagram incorrectly.
No one had a clue as to what terrible things she'd do to us if we misdiagrammed a sentence.
1997, Bryan L. Jones, “Back to the Basics”, in Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures2 more examples
If the parser isn't sophisticated, it will misdiagram the sentence and won't know the difference between verb and subject.
1991 October 28, John Lombardi, Kyla K. Carlson, “Grammar Checkers: Keep your writing in line”, in InfoWorld, volume 13, number 43, page 65If you are missing any connections, or if you misdiagrammed, check the numbered arrows in the diagram against the numbered rules to see where you may have gone wrong.
2014, LSAT Logic Games
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
- Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
- Proto-Germanic*missaz
- Proto-Germanic*missa-
- Proto-West Germanic*missa-
- Old Englishmis-
- Middle Englishmys-
- Englishmis-
- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*dwís
- Ancient Greekδιά (diá)
- Ancient Greekδῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă)
- Ancient Greekδιάγραμμα (diágramma)
- Italiandiagramma
- Frenchdiagramme
- Englishdiagram
- Englishmisdiagram
Cite this entry
misdiagram. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdiagram
“misdiagram.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misdiagram. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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