Dictionary

missummarize en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + summarize.

Meanings

1. To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
   • But he missummarizes the historical events themselves, imagines the entire tale as a tour de force in the amalgamation of historical materials, and concludes that this "Paradise Lost in provincial miniature" has been arranged to tell us that "neither a whipping post nor a maypole can stand for the best in life". 1984, Michael J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales, page 603:
   • In my judgment Conrad and Weinberg missummarize media discourse about genetics as much as they accuse the press of doing , and in ways similar to the press ( though with reversed valence ), with regard to the summarizing of scientific discourse. 1999, Celeste Michelle Condit, The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity, page 294:
   • To. missummarize it as a slogan, I would describe feminine writing, like somatic writing, as writing from within my guts, from within my lived experience. 2021, David John Farmer, Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory, page 95:

Forms

Relateds

misreport · misrepresent · misstate