prefix
Meaning 1
Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- misbehaviour; misspelling; to misbehave
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mal-
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mis-
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Meaning 2
Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
Incorrect; incorrectly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- misidentification; to misidentify
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mal-, para-, dis-, dys-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 3
Failed; in a manner resulting in failure (to do, complete or achieve something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- miscarriage (failed carriage of a pregnancy to term), to miscarry, to misacknowledge
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dis-, dys-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 4
Unintentional, accidental, mistaken; unintentionally, accidentally, mistakenly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- Yes, I did "Buy now", but it was a misclick.
- I misclicked something on my computer, and now everything is in Hungarian!
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mal-
Antonyms: none provided
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Meaning 5
False, falsely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Examples
- misaccusation, to misaccuse
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pseudo-
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth2-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- From Middle English mys-, mis-, from Old English mis- (“mis-”), from Proto-West Germanic *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly, mis-”), from the adjective *missaz (whence also miss), from Proto-Indo-European *mitstós (“mutual, reciprocal”), from *meyt(h2)- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”), extended from the root *mey- (“to change”). Cognate with Scots mis- (“mis-”), Dutch mis- (“mis-”), German miss-, mis- (“mis-”), Danish mis- (“mis-”), Swedish miss- (“mis-”), Icelandic mis- (“mis-”). Compare also French més-, mé- (“mis-”), from Old French mes- (“mis-”), from Frankish *mis-, *missa- (“mis-”), from the same Proto-Germanic source above.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: dez- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Czech: mis- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Danish: mis- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Dutch: mis- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Esperanto: fi- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- French: mé- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- French: més- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- German: miss- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- German: ver- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Hungarian: félre- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Hungarian: el- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Hungarian: tév- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Icelandic: mis- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Japanese: 誤- (go) — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Japanese: -ミス (misu) — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Latin: aliter — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Middle English: mys- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Polish: nie- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Russian: о- (o-) — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Russian: обо- (obo-) — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Spanish: mal- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Swedish: miss- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- Yola: miz- — bad or wrong; badly or wrongly