misnested

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adjective

Incorrectly nested.

“misnested parentheses”

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Meanings

adjectivemisnested (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIncorrectly nested.

    misnested parentheses

    2 more examples

    […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a misnested quotation mark is all it takes.

    1998, Jeff Frentzen, Henry Sobotka, Dewayne McNair, JavaScript Annotated Archives, page 28

    Netscape is of course pretty buggy, but it generally handles nested tables OK so I suspect your problem is misnested or unclosed table tags […]

    2000, Simon Brooke, “Any chance of Site feedback”, in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (Usenet)
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of misnest

Origin

From mis- + nested.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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