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misexpressive

misexpressive adjective: wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.

Adjective

misexpressive (comparative more misexpressive, superlative most misexpressive)

  1. Wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
    • But the terms promulged and unpromulged, as thus applied, are not less misexpressive than written and unwritten (sensu juridico).1873, John Austin, Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law, page 542

Forms of misexpressive

comparativemore misexpressive
superlativemost misexpressive

Origin of misexpressive

From mis- + expressive.

Questions about misexpressive

What does misexpressive mean?
Misexpressive means wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
What part of speech is misexpressive?
Misexpressive is an adjective.

Words near misexpressive in the dictionary

  1. misexpresses
  2. misexpressing
  3. misexpression
  4. misexpressional
  5. misexpressions
  6. misexpressive
  7. misextend
  8. misextended
  9. misextending
  10. misextends
  11. misextrapolate

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