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misanswering

misanswering is the present participle and gerund of misanswer.

Meaning of misanswer

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

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Questions about misanswering

What is misanswering the present participle and gerund of?
Misanswering is the present participle and gerund of misanswer.

Words near misanswering in the dictionary

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

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