<B>misadvise, </B>transitive verb, <B>-vised,</B> <B>-vising.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to advise wrongly or incorrectly. </DL>
<A NAME="misalign">
<B>misalign, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to align incorrectly. <BR> <I>Ex. Doors will work even if misaligned (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put out of alignment. <BR> <I>Ex. I ... had broken the glass of my watch and misaligned the hands (London Times).</I> noun <B>misalignment.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misalliance">
<B>misalliance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an unsuitable alliance or association, especially in marriage. </DL>
<A NAME="misallocate">
<B>misallocate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to distribute (money, time, or other resources) incorrectly or poorly; misappropriate or misapply. <BR> <I>Ex. The tendency ... is to misallocate managerial skills (Sunday Times).</I> noun <B>misallocation.</B> </DL>
<B>misandry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> hatred of men. </DL>
<A NAME="misanthrope">
<B>misanthrope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who dislikes or distrusts people in general; hater of mankind. <BR> <I>Ex. He was also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="misanthropic">
<B>misanthropic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a misanthrope. <BR> <I>Ex. scowling on all the world from his misanthropic seclusion (Francis Parkman).</I> adv. <B>misanthropically.</B> </DL>
<B>misanthropy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> hatred, dislike, or distrust of people in general. <BR> <I>Ex. The outcry was so great that it ... may well have been responsible in part for Degas's subsequent misanthropy (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="misapplication">
<B>misapplication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a misapplying or being misapplied; wrong application. </DL>
<A NAME="misapplied">
<B>misapplied, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> put to a wrong use; applied wrongly. </DL>
<A NAME="misapply">
<B>misapply, </B>transitive verb, <B>-plied,</B> <B>-plying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to put to a wrong use; applied wrongly. </DL>
<A NAME="misappraisal">
<B>misappraisal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an incorrect appraisal. </DL>
<B>misapprehension, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a misunderstanding; misconception. </DL>
<A NAME="misapprehensive">
<B>misapprehensive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> misapprehending; apt to misapprehend. adv. <B>misapprehensively.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misappropriate">
<B>misappropriate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to use dishonestly as one's own. <BR> <I>Ex. The treasurer had misappropriated the club funds.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to put to a wrong use. (SYN) misapply. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=inappropriate.</B> noun <B>misappropriation.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misassign">
<B>misassign, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to assign to the wrong person or category. </DL>
<A NAME="misattribute">
<B>misattribute, </B>transitive verb, <B>-uted,</B> <B>-uting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to attribute incorrectly. <BR> <I>Ex. Acts of anonymous attack ... may be misattributed as to source and so lead to a world holocaust (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> noun <B>misattribution.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misbecome">
<B>misbecome, </B>transitive verb, <B>-came,</B> <B>-come,</B> <B>-coming.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to be unbecoming to; be unfit for. <BR> <I>Ex. Profanity misbecomes a lady.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="misbegat">
<B>misbegat, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) misbegot; a past tense of <B>misbeget.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misbeget">
<B>misbeget, </B>transitive verb, <B>-got</B> or (Archaic) <B>-gat,</B> <B>-gotten</B> or <B>-got,</B> <B>-getting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to beget unlawfully. </DL>
<A NAME="misbegot">
<B>misbegot, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=misbegotten.</B> <DD><I>verb </I> a past tense and a past participle of <B>misbeget.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misbegotten">
<B>misbegotten, </B>adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>unlawfully or improperly begotten; illegitimate. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) rascally. <BR> <I>Ex. Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal green (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>verb </I> a past participle of <B>misbeget.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misbehave">
<B>misbehave, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-haved,</B> <B>-having.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to behave badly; conduct oneself improperly. <BR> <I>Ex. She was not the woman to misbehave towards her betters (George Eliot).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="misbehavior">
<B>misbehavior, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> bad behavior. (SYN) misconduct. </DL>
<B>misbelief, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wrong or erroneous belief, especially an unorthodox or heretical religious belief. </DL>
<A NAME="misbelieve">
<B>misbelieve, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-lieved,</B> <B>-lieving.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to hold an erroneous belief, especially an unorthodox or heretical religious belief. noun <B>misbeliever.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="misbestow">
<B>misbestow, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to bestow improperly. </DL>
<A NAME="misbrand">
<B>misbrand, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to brand or mark incorrectly. <DD><B> 2. </B>to label improperly or falsely, especially with the brand name or trademark of another. <BR> <I>Ex. The Federal Trade Commission still is studying whether his textile companies misbranded their products (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>miscalculate, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-lated,</B> <B>-lating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to calculate wrongly or incorrectly. </DL>
<A NAME="miscalculation">
<B>miscalculation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wrong or incorrect calculation. <BR> <I>Ex. [Hitler's] miscalculation was not in respect of Russia; ... his miscalculation was in respect of Britain (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="miscall">
<B>miscall, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to call by a wrong or incorrect name; misname. </DL>
<A NAME="miscarriage">
<B>miscarriage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a failure, especially to achieve the proper result. <BR> <I>Ex. Because the judge was unfair, that trial resulted in a miscarriage of justice. With infinite difficulty and repeated miscarriages I at length effected my purpose (William Godwin).</I> (SYN) breakdown. <DD><B> 2. </B>failure to arrive or deliver. <BR> <I>Ex. the miscarriage of a letter, a miscarriage of freight.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the birth of a baby before it is able to live; birth of a fetus before it can live, especially before the twentieth week of pregnancy. (SYN) abortion. </DL>
<A NAME="miscarry">
<B>miscarry, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-ried,</B> <B>-rying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to go wrong; be unsuccessful. <BR> <I>Ex. My plans miscarried and I could not go on vacation. His letters to his son are a mixture of excited admiration and apprehension lest Karl's genius miscarry (Edmund Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to fail to arrive. <BR> <I>Ex. My letter to mother must have miscarried, for she never received it.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to have a miscarriage; give birth to a baby before it is able to live. <DD><B> 4. </B>to be born before being developed enough to live. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) to go astray. </DL>
<A NAME="miscast">
<B>miscast, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cast,</B> <B>-casting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to put in a role for which one is not suited. <BR> <I>Ex. The soft-spoken actor was badly miscast as lago.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="miscegenation">
<B>miscegenation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an intermarriage or interbreeding between different races, especially, in the United States, between whites and blacks. </DL>
<A NAME="miscegenetic">
<B>miscegenetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or constituting miscegenation. <BR> <I>Ex. The rule voiding miscegenetic marriages creates another disturbing problem (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="miscellanea">
<B>miscellanea, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a miscellaneous collection, especially of literary compositions; miscellany. </DL>
