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misdesign

misdesign verb: to design badly or incorrectly.

Verb

misdesign (third-person singular simple present misdesigns, present participle misdesigning, simple past and past participle misdesigned)

  1. (transitive) To design badly or incorrectly.
    • It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240

Noun

misdesign (uncountable)

  1. Bad or wrong design.

Forms of misdesign

third-person singular presentmisdesigns
present participlemisdesigning
past participlemisdesigned
pastmisdesigned

Origin of misdesign

From mis- + design.

Questions about misdesign

What does misdesign mean?
Misdesign means to design badly or incorrectly.
What part of speech is misdesign?
Misdesign can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misdesign?
The past tense of misdesign is misdesigned.

Words near misdesign in the dictionary

  1. misdescriptions
  2. misdescriptive
  3. misdescriptiveness
  4. misdesert
  5. misdeserts
  6. misdesign
  7. misdesigned
  8. misdesigning
  9. misdesigns
  10. misdesire
  11. misdesires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misdesign (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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