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misestimating

misestimating is the present participle and gerund of misestimate.

Meaning of misestimate

Verb

misestimate (third-person singular simple present misestimates, present participle misestimating, simple past and past participle misestimated)

  1. To estimate erroneously.
    • [W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560

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Questions about misestimating

What is misestimating the present participle and gerund of?
Misestimating is the present participle and gerund of misestimate.

Words near misestimating in the dictionary

  1. misesteeming
  2. misesteems
  3. misestimate
  4. misestimated
  5. misestimates
  6. misestimating
  7. misestimation
  8. misestimations
  9. misetymologies
  10. misetymologize
  11. misetymologized

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