Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misadminister

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-ad-min-is-ter
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To administer wrongly or badly.

Example Sentences

"Congress, investing Washington with the same extraordinary powers they had given him after the affair at Trenton, quietly slipped away to York, where they continued to misadminister their affairs."
"If you do not know how to score an item, then the student will not know when certain criteria are reached and will misadminister the test."
"While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom."

Etymology

From mis- + administer.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

misadministers (present, singular) misadministering (participle, present) misadministered (participle, past) misadministered (past)

Questions

What does misadminister mean?: To administer wrongly or badly.
Where does misadminister come from?: From mis- + administer.

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