Meanings
verbmisseem (third-person singular simple present misseems, present participle misseeming, simple past and past participle misseemed)
present singular third person misseems · participle present misseeming · participle past misseemed · past misseemed
- literaryTo be unbecoming to; not to suit.First known use 15th c.
Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with misseem
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APA
misseem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misseem
MLA
“misseem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misseem. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misseem,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misseem.
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