mismean
verbEtymology From mis- + mean.
1
To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
- If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter.1914, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, The Journal of genetic psychology:
- To mismean is not to mean; to mismean is to honor a meaning glimpsed but unmeant.1978, Clayton Eshleman, What she means:
- Derived terms
- mismeaning