misreact
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To react inappropriately.
Example Sentences
- "According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited.""
- "From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life."
- "David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices."
- "And because it projects narrow representations of others as “friend,” “enemy,” or “stranger” that hide their fullness and mystery, we continually misreact to others, causing ourselves and others further misery."
- "After months or years of such 24/7 inflammation, the leaky gut deteriorates to the point that the immune system starts to overreact, crossreact, and misreact."