misstate 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- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English misstate From mis- + state.
Meanings
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(transitive) To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
Correction: August 21, 2017 An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei.
2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From Isolated Farm Life to Celebrity”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2017, Asia Pacific:The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
Near-synonym: misreport
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| misstating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| misstated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| misstated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| misstates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Relateds
missummarize · misrepresent · misstatement
Synonyms
Translations (5)
pl przekręcić (to make a statement that is wrong) · pl przekłamywać (to make a statement that is wrong) · pl przekłamać (to make a statement that is wrong) · pl przekręcać (to make a statement that is wrong) · mi aweke (to make a statement that is wrong)