misgenerate
misgenerate verb: to generate incorrectly.
Verb
misgenerate (third-person singular simple present misgenerates, present participle misgenerating, simple past and past participle misgenerated)
- To generate incorrectly.
- The evidence was misinterpreted —aside from the fact that it was misgenerated in terms of research design — and that misinterpretation was replicated in study after study after study for about 35 years.1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education, Hearing on the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, page 78
- A child who encounters English (1) and mistakenly takes it to be a V2 construction would acquire the wrong grammar and would then misgenerate V2 sentences that are ungrammatical in English (e.g., *Me saw John, with the object in SpecCP).1999, Elaine C. Klein, Gita Martohardjono, The Development of Second Language Grammars, page 364
Forms of misgenerate
| third-person singular present | misgenerates |
|---|---|
| present participle | misgenerating |
| past participle | misgenerated |
| past | misgenerated |
Origin of misgenerate
From mis- + generate.
Questions about misgenerate
- What does misgenerate mean?
- Misgenerate means to generate incorrectly.
- What part of speech is misgenerate?
- Misgenerate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of misgenerate?
- The past tense of misgenerate is misgenerated.
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