Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

missynthesize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-syn-the-size
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To synthesize badly or incorrectly.

Example Sentences

"Now, Pound wrote no Imagistic poems as bad as my missynthesized example, but he quickly discovered that deliberately incongruous superimpositions could be used as a potent satirical tool:"
"By protecting DNA, selenium reduces the missynthesizing of proteins."
"The hypothesis, as presently stated, requires the random appearance of myssynthesized proteins — that is, evidence of molecular missynthesis should not be confined to just a few enzymes, but should be ubiquitous."

Etymology

From mis- + synthesize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

missynthesizes (present, singular) missynthesizing (participle, present) missynthesized (participle, past) missynthesized (past)

Questions

What does missynthesize mean?: To synthesize badly or incorrectly.
Where does missynthesize come from?: From mis- + synthesize.

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