Word.ws English Dictionary

misappraise

misappraise verb: to appraise wrongly.

Verb

misappraise (third-person singular simple present misappraises, present participle misappraising, simple past and past participle misappraised)

  1. (transitive) To appraise wrongly.

Forms of misappraise

third-person singular presentmisappraises
present participlemisappraising
past participlemisappraised
pastmisappraised

Origin of misappraise

From mis- + appraise.

Questions about misappraise

What does misappraise mean?
Misappraise means to appraise wrongly.
What part of speech is misappraise?
Misappraise is a verb.
What is the past tense of misappraise?
The past tense of misappraise is misappraised.

Words near misappraise in the dictionary

  1. misapply
  2. misapplying
  3. misappointment
  4. misappraisal
  5. misappraisals
  6. misappraise
  7. misappraised
  8. misappraisement
  9. misappraisements
  10. misappraises
  11. misappraising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misappraise (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “misappraise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misappraise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.