Meanings
present singular third person misstates · participle present misstating · participle past misstated · past misstated
- transitiveTo make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
Near-synonym: misreport
2 more examples
The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
Correction: August 21, 2017 An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.
2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2017, Asia PacificSynonyms: misreport
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
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*steh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
- Proto-Italic*status
- Latinstatu
- Old Frenchestat
- Middle Englishstat
- Englishstate
- Englishmisstate
Translations
Māori aweke
- aweketo make a statement that is wrong
Polish przekręcać, przekręcić
- przekręcaćto make a statement that is wrong
- przekręcićto make a statement that is wrong
- przekłamywaćto make a statement that is wrong
- przekłamaćto make a statement that is wrong
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Cite this entry
misstate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstate
“misstate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstate. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misstate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misstate.
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