misforecast
/mɪsˈfɔː(ɹ)kæst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To forecast incorrectly; to make an erroneous prediction.
noun
The act of misforecasting.
noun
The result of misforecasting; misprediction.
Example Sentences
- "Maybe she ordered too many, or misforecast and picked wrong colors, or woke up to find that trend she hopped on changed overnight and she's stuck with an order that won't sell anywhere at any price."
- "Are any elections misforecast? Yes, the elections of 1960 and 1968 are misforecast."
- "In the more general case, the agent may misforecast demand and consequently view the tradeoff between a higher co-pay and a lower premium as being more or less favorable than it actually is."
- "He offered his plans for revision to the authorities, but the adoption of his ideas was unfortunately postponed because of his misforecast of the solar eclipse of June 1675 ."
- "Energy overpayments result primarily from the misforecast of oil prices."
- "The numbers can be roughly interpreted as the degree of misforecast of the level of aggregate demand."