misenlightened
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having been enlightened incorrectly; misinformed.
Example Sentences
- "My dear and misenlightened friends in the Scriptures ' bonds: - It is with great agony of mind that I find myself in the position to speak to you."
- "Thence he would mark, in real ignorance of the plot of the forthcoming piece, or cycle of pieces, the motley compaies gathering for rehearsal—the barn-stormers; the heavy "leads:" the slighted tragedians foreseeing their opportunity for the fiftieth time; the inflated supers canvassing the favour of phantom houses with imagined gems of inspiration, with new lamps for old in the shape of misenlightened renderings of traditional rôles; he would mark the gas, so to speak, the artificial light that informed the garish scene with spurious vitality."
- "I was misenlightened, no doubt — made the victim, very possibly, of a trifling hoax."
Etymology
From mis- + enlightened.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more misenlightened (comparative)
most misenlightened (superlative)