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  1. mis-prefix

    bad, badly, wrong, wrongly

  2. mis-prefix

    lack or failure

  3. Etymology: From missa-. Akin to missan

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mis-

    a prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant

  2. Etymology: [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-, Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G. meiden to shun, OHG. mdan, AS. man (100. Cf. Miss to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F. m-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see Minus). In present usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mis- in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mis- in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mis- in a Sentence

  1. Kevin Friedman:

    Any place where there is Covid exposure, there will be MIS-C too. It is inevitable that we'll see this with the reopening of schools.

  2. Tom McPhail:

    Behind the scenes, they have been methodically stripping away the layers of paperwork and uncovering evidence of how the sales were made, it appears likely that some providers are going to be called to account for the way they have treated their customers, which could in turn pave the way for compensation for mis-sold annuity investors.

  3. Mark Twain:

    If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

  4. Ashley Alder:

    If you react to that by piling more intervention on intervention, you encourage more untoward risk taking and you end up with even greater amount of mis-priced risk.

  5. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon:

    Most of McNeilly's concerns proved to be either factually incorrect or the result of mis- or partial understanding.


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