English Words: M

36,575 words · Page 452 of 732

Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).

misbefittingadj

Not befitting; unfit or unsuitable

To beget wrongly or badly.

Misbegotten; unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin

Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.

begun badly or incorrectly

Alternative form of misbeholden.

To act or behave in an inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected manner.

One who misbehaves.

misbehavingnoun

bad conduct or actions

misbehaviornoun

Action or conduct that is inappropriate, improper, incorrect, or unexpected.

misbehaviournoun

Alternative spelling of misbehavior.

misbehaviouraladj

Of, pertaining to, or causing misbehaviour.

Disobliging; offensive or unkind.

an erroneous belief

To believe incorrectly; hold to a false belief.

misbelievernoun

Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.

misbelievingverb

present participle and gerund of misbelieve

misbelievinglyadv

Synonym of disbelievingly.

To be unseemly on or from; to fail to suit.

To bestow improperly.

misbestowalnoun

The act of misbestowing.

To injure; mistreat.

Incorrect bidding.

To bill incorrectly.

To bind incorrectly.

An abortion.

misbisectionnoun

Incorrect bisection (typically of chromosomes).

To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.

To blend incorrectly.

A blow that lands incorrectly.

To board incorrectly (the wrong vehicle).

To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.

Feeling a sense of impending disaster.

Born prematurely; abortive.

To put in the wrong box.

To make a mistake in branding a product or service, as by poor association of the name in a significant group of potential customers.

Agent noun of misbrand: one who misbrands.

To breathe wrongly, to breathe irregularly

To breed with the wrong mate, resulting in inferior offspring.

To brew incorrectly.

To brief incorrectly; to supply with wrong preparatory information.

To budget too much or too little.

To build wrongly or badly.

To button wrongly.

To buy in error or regretfully.

present participle and gerund of misbuy

miscalculateverb

To calculate incorrectly.

miscalculationnoun

An incorrect or mistaken calculation.

miscalculatornoun

A person who miscalculates

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The English alphabetical index for the letter M contains 36,575 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 732 pages, and you are currently viewing page 452. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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