Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mismaintain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-main-tain
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.

Example Sentences

"A bus can be mismaintained causing it to spill gallons of expensive fuel rounding the first corner of the day."
"It is applicable if a product is found defective and unreasonably dangerous regardless of the care in design, manufacturing, or preparation of instructions, given that the user had not mismaintained, misused, or abused the product."
"They wrote: Rancho Seco was “mismanaged, mismaintained, and misoperated” since its beginning."

Etymology

From mis- + maintain.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Inflected Forms

mismaintains (present, singular) mismaintaining (participle, present) mismaintained (participle, past) mismaintained (past)

Questions

What does mismaintain mean?: To maintain improperly; to provide inadequate maintenance.
Where does mismaintain come from?: From mis- + maintain.

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