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misconsider

misconsider verb: to consider wrongly; to misjudge.

Verb

misconsider (third-person singular simple present misconsiders, present participle misconsidering, simple past and past participle misconsidered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To consider wrongly; to misjudge.
    • Without such approaches we can only get a partial (and perhaps overly deterministic) view of discursive effects, which misconsider their processes of regulation.1996, Gill Aitken, Erica Burman, Pam Alldred, Psychology Discourse Practice: From Regulation to Resistance
    • Many of them, in fact, tend to misconsider the problem of production capacity.1999, Shahrukh A. Irani, Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems, page 566

Forms of misconsider

third-person singular presentmisconsiders
present participlemisconsidering
past participlemisconsidered
pastmisconsidered

Origin of misconsider

From mis- + consider.

Questions about misconsider

What does misconsider mean?
Misconsider means to consider wrongly; to misjudge.
What part of speech is misconsider?
Misconsider is a verb.
What is the past tense of misconsider?
The past tense of misconsider is misconsidered.

Words near misconsider in the dictionary

  1. misconsecrated
  2. misconsecrates
  3. misconsecrating
  4. misconsequence
  5. misconsequences
  6. misconsider
  7. misconsidered
  8. misconsidering
  9. misconsiders
  10. misconster
  11. misconstered

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