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misencounter

misencounter noun: a bad or wrong encounter.

Noun

misencounter (plural misencounters)

  1. A bad or wrong encounter.
    • We had tried to meet on earlier occasions, which led to a couple of hilarious misencounters. The first time we were to meet at the Biltmore Men's Bar, (even the name is impossible today!) and I was waiting in the downstairs bar, and he was waiting in the upstairs bar, each thinking the other had...1998, The Texas Review, volume 19, page 36
    • As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter.2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature

Forms of misencounter

pluralmisencounters

Origin of misencounter

From mis- + encounter.

Questions about misencounter

What does misencounter mean?
Misencounter means a bad or wrong encounter.
What part of speech is misencounter?
Misencounter is a noun.
What is the plural of misencounter?
The plural of misencounter is misencounters.

Words near misencounter in the dictionary

  1. misencode
  2. misencoded
  3. misencodes
  4. misencoding
  5. misencodings
  6. misencounter
  7. misencounters
  8. misendeavor
  9. misendeavors
  10. misendeavour
  11. misendeavours

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