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miscolor

miscolor is the alternative form of miscolour.

Meaning of miscolour

Verb

miscolour (third-person singular simple present miscolours, present participle miscolouring, simple past and past participle miscoloured)

  1. (transitive) To give a wrong colour to.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To set forth erroneously or unfairly.
    • to miscolour facts

Forms of miscolor

third-person singular presentmiscolors
present participlemiscoloring
past participlemiscolored
pastmiscolored

Origin of miscolor

From Middle English miscolouren. By surface analysis, mis- + color.

Questions about miscolor

What is miscolor the alternative form of?
Miscolor is the alternative form of miscolour.

Words near miscolor in the dictionary

  1. miscollecting
  2. miscollects
  3. miscollocation
  4. miscollocations
  5. miscolocalization
  6. miscolor
  7. miscoloration
  8. miscolorations
  9. miscolored
  10. miscoloring
  11. miscolorings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: miscolor (page history and authors); miscolour (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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