Word.ws English Dictionary

misbuilding

misbuilding is the present participle and gerund of misbuild.

Meaning of misbuild

Verb

misbuild (third-person singular simple present misbuilds, present participle misbuilding, simple past and past participle misbuilt)

  1. (transitive) To build wrongly or badly.
    • With a violent effort of packing and scheming (e.g., a box of books with cross-bars in it, and shelves which were to be put in, and make the box a press, &c. &c.), in all which Larkin and Maggie Welsh assisted diligently, I got down to Marina on one of the first days of May [Sat., 14 May]. Dreary...1864, Thomas Carlyle, [Letter to Joseph Neuberg⁠] [Letter 283], volume 40, Carlyle Letters Online
    Synonyms:
    misconstruct

Questions about misbuilding

What is misbuilding the present participle and gerund of?
Misbuilding is the present participle and gerund of misbuild.

Words near misbuilding in the dictionary

  1. misbudget
  2. misbudgeted
  3. misbudgeting
  4. misbudgets
  5. misbuild
  6. misbuilding
  7. misbuilds
  8. misbuilt
  9. misbutton
  10. misbuttoned
  11. misbuttoning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misbuilding (page history and authors); misbuild (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: “misbuilding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misbuilding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.