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misasked

misasked is the simple past and past participle of misask.

Meaning of misask

Verb

misask (third-person singular simple present misasks, present participle misasking, simple past and past participle misasked)

  1. (rare, transitive) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
    • Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow?
      I may have misasked the question then.1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States

Adjective

misasked (not comparable)

  1. asked amiss, for the wrong purpose, or incorrectly

Forms of misasked

alternative formmis-asked

Origin of misasked

From Middle English misasked, equivalent to mis- + asked.

Questions about misasked

What does misasked mean?
Misasked means asked amiss, for the wrong purpose, or incorrectly.
What is misasked the simple past and past participle of?
Misasked is the simple past and past participle of misask.
What part of speech is misasked?
Misasked is an adjective.

Words near misasked in the dictionary

  1. misascribes
  2. misascribing
  3. misascription
  4. misascriptions
  5. misask
  6. misasked
  7. misasking
  8. misasks
  9. misassemble
  10. misassembled
  11. misassembles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misasked (page history and authors); misask (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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