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misconceiving

misconceiving is the present participle and gerund of misconceive.

Meaning of misconceive

Verb

misconceive (third-person singular simple present misconceives, present participle misconceiving, simple past and past participle misconceived)

  1. To misunderstand.
    • Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy.1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer
  2. To judge or plan badly, typically on the basis of faulty misunderstanding.
    • HS2 has never had that. It was missold, misnamed and misconceived. It was promoted as a piece of engineering, rather than as a vital part of the railway.2024 February 7, Christian Wolmar, “LNER's crazy idea will price more people off the railway”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 45

Adjective

misconceiving (comparative more misconceiving, superlative most misconceiving)

  1. Having false ideas; misleading.
    • through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight, / And misty dampe of misconceiuing night, / And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard, / He did the better counterfeite aright [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of misconceiving

comparativemore misconceiving
superlativemost misconceiving

Questions about misconceiving

What does misconceiving mean?
Misconceiving means having false ideas; misleading.
What is misconceiving the present participle and gerund of?
Misconceiving is the present participle and gerund of misconceive.
What part of speech is misconceiving?
Misconceiving is an adjective.

Words near misconceiving in the dictionary

  1. misconceivedly
  2. misconceivedness
  3. misconceiver
  4. misconceivers
  5. misconceives
  6. misconceiving
  7. misconception
  8. misconceptions
  9. misconceptualisation
  10. misconceptualisations
  11. misconceptualization

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