misfact

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noun

A wrong or untrue piece of information.

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Meanings

nounmisfact (countable and uncountable, plural misfacts)

plural misfacts

  1. countablerareA wrong or untrue piece of information.

    All summer long, I was busy battling the assistant chief who continued to cry the criminally libelous misfact.

    2011, Roger Chiang, Travails To Truth: My Peace From Prison, page 8
    1 more example

    These transformations often occur because the "treatment" has unlocked the genetic or evolutionary "potential" being bottled up by our own inadequacies as humans — social commentary and science misfact in one big melange.

    2003, Jay S Hosler, Sandwalk Adventures, page 148
  2. rareuncountableMisinformation.

    It is most unfortunate that FILM SOCIETY REVIEW chose to print an article about the Fourth National Student Film Festival filled with statements of misfact which raised so many questions concerning the objectives of the Festival's sponsor, […]

    1969, Film Society Review, volume 5, page 13

Origin

From mis- + fact.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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