misevaluate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.
Example Sentences
- "Eventually , the organism experiences itself as fundamentally endangered; to misevaluate the environment is to place oneself in jeopardy."
- "If objectionable thick concepts are evaluative but misevaluate, there can be behaviors which are, say, lewd or perverted, but which are not bad."
- "As with the jurors who are likely to misevaluate the evidential import of certain pieces of evidence, the audience in this case is likely to misevaluate the testimony coming from women of color regarding instances of domestic violence."
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- English evaluate English misevaluate From mis- + evaluate.