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misanswer

/mɪsˈænsə(ɹ)/

misanswer verb: to answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly.

Verb

misanswer (third-person singular simple present misanswers, present participle misanswering, simple past and past participle misanswered)

  1. (transitive) to answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly
  2. (archaic, transitive) to answer scornfully or abusively
    • Also that no Fellow, within the lodge or without it, shall misanswer or reprove another, without cause.2013, John Yarker, The Arcane Schools

Noun

misanswer (plural misanswers)

  1. a bad, wrong, or incorrect answer

misanswer meaning in Bengali

misanswer in Bengali

খারাপভাবে, ভুলভাবে, অশুদ্ধভাবে উত্তর দেওয়া, ঘৃণাভরে, আপত্তিকরভাবে উত্তর দেওয়া, খারাপ

Forms of misanswer

Verb
third-person singular presentmisanswers
present participlemisanswering
past participlemisanswered
pastmisanswered
Noun
pluralmisanswers

Origin of misanswer

From Middle English mysansweren, equivalent to mis- + answer.

Questions about misanswer

What does misanswer mean?
Misanswer means to answer badly, wrongly, or incorrectly.
What is misanswer in Bengali?
Misanswer in Bengali is খারাপভাবে, ভুলভাবে, অশুদ্ধভাবে উত্তর দেওয়া. See Misanswer meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is misanswer?
Misanswer can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce misanswer?
Misanswer is pronounced /mɪsˈænsə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of misanswer?
The past tense of misanswer is misanswered.

Words near misanswer in the dictionary

  1. misannotated
  2. misannotates
  3. misannotating
  4. misannotation
  5. misannotations
  6. misanswer
  7. misanswered
  8. misanswering
  9. misanswers
  10. misanthrope
  11. misanthropes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misanswer (page history and authors); misanswer (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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