mismeanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

mismean (三人称単数 現在形 mismeans, 現在分詞 mismeaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 mismeant)

1. (transitive) To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
   • 1914, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, The Journal of genetic psychology:

     If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter.

   • 1978, Clayton Eshleman, What she means:

     To mismean is not to mean; to mismean is to honor a meaning glimpsed but unmeant.

派生語

• mismeaning