misdight
misdight adjective: arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
Adjective
misdight (not comparable)
- Arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- Her heart gan grudge for very deepe despight / Of so unmanly maske in misery misdight.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Despised nature suit them once aright, / Their body to their coat, both now misdight. / Their body to their clothes might shapen be, / That nill their clothes shape to their bodie.1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC
Origin of misdight
From mis- + dight.
Words that rhyme with misdight
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- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
Questions about misdight
- What does misdight mean?
- Misdight means arrayed, prepared, or furnished unsuitably.
- What part of speech is misdight?
- Misdight is an adjective.
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