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mis-housed

mis-housed is the alternative spelling of mishoused.

Meaning of mishoused

Adjective

mishoused (comparative more mishoused, superlative most mishoused)

  1. Provided with a dwelling or setting that is inadequate.
    • The obvious remedy for this problem is the provision of suitable accommodation for all these mishoused patients.1967, Barbara Robb, Sans Everything: A Case to Answer, page 124

Forms of mis-housed

comparativemore mis-housed
superlativemost mis-housed

Origin of mis-housed

From mis- + housed.

Questions about mis-housed

What is mis-housed the alternative spelling of?
Mis-housed is the alternative spelling of mishoused.

Words near mis-housed in the dictionary

  1. mis-histories
  2. mis-history
  3. mis-hit
  4. mis-hits
  5. mis-hitting
  6. mis-housed
  7. mis-pass
  8. mis-sang
  9. mis-sell
  10. mis-shapen
  11. mis-shoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mis-housed (page history and authors); mishoused (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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