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mis-theorise

mis-theorise is the alternative form of mistheorize.

Meaning of mistheorize

Verb

mistheorize (third-person singular simple present mistheorizes, present participle mistheorizing, simple past and past participle mistheorized)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To theorize incorrectly.
    • But then to mistheorize this for a concept of synchronization's 'greater truthfulness' is a confusion that becomes the other side of the (same) coin.2013, Peter Gidal, Materialist Film, page 28

Forms of mis-theorise

third-person singular presentmis-theorises
present participlemis-theorising
past participlemis-theorised
pastmis-theorised

Questions about mis-theorise

What is mis-theorise the alternative form of?
Mis-theorise is the alternative form of mistheorize.

Words near mis-theorise in the dictionary

  1. mis-sung
  2. mis-swing
  3. mis-swinging
  4. mis-swings
  5. mis-swung
  6. mis-theorise
  7. mis-theorised
  8. mis-theorises
  9. mis-theorising
  10. mis-theorize
  11. mis-theorized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mis-theorise (page history and authors); mistheorize (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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