Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misrelegate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-rel-e-gate
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To relegate inappropriately.

Example Sentences

""Job-consciousness," that suggestive concept so regularly re-examined and so frequently misrelegated to the mythology of the past, is, in my estimation, still a useful, dynamic insight."
"However, this anticipates what needs to be shown, and ignores what I have just claimed: the widespread failure to recognize that the dialogue is indeed about virtue, being instead misrelegated to the specialists of academic epistemology, with only its famous "paradox" (perhaps along with Socrates' seemingly bizarre resolution) being extracted for use in elementary courses and textbooks introducing "The Basic Problems of Philosophy.""
"He is “misrelegated to a state mental hospital” where he is studied, categorized, made subject to discipline “at the hands of well-meaning representatives of the social order” (Bell 9)."

Etymology

From mis- + relegate.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

misrelegates (present, singular) misrelegating (participle, present) misrelegated (participle, past) misrelegated (past)

Questions

What does misrelegate mean?: To relegate inappropriately.
Where does misrelegate come from?: From mis- + relegate.

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