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misadorned

misadorned is the simple past and past participle of misadorn.

Meaning of misadorn

Verb

misadorn (third-person singular simple present misadorns, present participle misadorning, simple past and past participle misadorned)

  1. To adorn badly; to embellish with unflattering adornments.
    • Let him not set many notes to any one syllable (notwithstanding that in former times it hath been a favourite fashion;) but let his music be such that the words may be clearly, and obviously understood, which will ever be the happy effect, when componsers do not stray from the modesty of nature...1768, The Lyric Muse Revived in Europe, page 95

Questions about misadorned

What is misadorned the simple past and past participle of?
Misadorned is the simple past and past participle of misadorn.

Words near misadorned in the dictionary

  1. misadministered
  2. misadministering
  3. misadministers
  4. misadministration
  5. misadorn
  6. misadorned
  7. misadorning
  8. misadorns
  9. misadvantage
  10. misadvantages
  11. misadventur'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misadorned (page history and authors); misadorn (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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