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misevaluate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English evaluate English misevaluate From mis- + evaluate.

Meanings

  1. To evaluate inaccurately or incorrectly.
    • As with the jurors who are likely to misevaluate the evidential import of certain pieces of evidence, the audience in this case is likely to misevaluate the testimony coming from women of color regarding instances of domestic violence. 2020, Guy Axtell, Amiel Bernal, Epistemic Paternalism, page 227:
    • If objectionable thick concepts are evaluative but misevaluate, there can be behaviors which are, say, lewd or perverted, but which are not bad. 2013, Simon Kirchin, Thick Concepts, page 166:
    • Eventually , the organism experiences itself as fundamentally endangered; to misevaluate the environment is to place oneself in jeopardy. 1970, William Frank Fischer, Theories of Anxiety, page 159:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
misevaluated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misevaluated Tense=Past lexicographic
misevaluating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misevaluates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

misevaluation

Translations (2)

fi arvioida väärin (evaluate inaccurately) · cmn 誤判 /误判 (evaluate inaccurately)