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misseasoned en · ADJ

Etymology

From mis- + seasoned.

Meanings

  1. Badly seasoned.
    • Everything was overcooked and misseasoned, but Kal, seeing how blotched Mrs. Lund's face was, swore it was the best dinner she had ever cooked. 2014, Mike Conner ·, Archangel:
    • Yet his tastes should not be so fastidious that he will fail to be satisfied with simple, well-cooked food. Least of all, must he have so tender a regard for his palate that a misseasoned dish will spoil his dinner and his temper. 1902, Christine Terhune Herrick, The Little Dinner, page 8:
    • And the doctrines of that wicked impostor were as bitter as wormwood, and did put an ill savour and odious distastefulness upon all that were misseasoned with them: insomuch as these seducements proved deadly to many thousand souls. 1808, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt, Works: Paraphrases on hard texts, page 514:

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most misseasoned Degree=Sup lexicographic
more misseasoned Degree=Cmp lexicographic