Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misshading

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-shad-ing
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of misshade

noun

An instance of misshading

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil"
"The credited testimony of Borden shows that Adams on October 12 prewarned him about the discharge and told him that the ground for the discharge would be the misshading of materials ( i.e. selecting materials for manufacture into a batch of shirts which were not of matching shades)."
"Eliminates traditional causes of misshading."

Usage

Inflected Forms

misshadings (plural)

Questions

What does misshading mean?: present participle and gerund of misshade

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