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misidentified

misidentified is the simple past and past participle of misidentify.

Meaning of misidentify

Verb

misidentify (third-person singular simple present misidentifies, present participle misidentifying, simple past and past participle misidentified)

  1. (transitive) To mistake the identity of (something or someone).

Adjective

misidentified (comparative more misidentified, superlative most misidentified)

  1. identified incorrectly

Forms of misidentified

comparativemore misidentified
superlativemost misidentified

Questions about misidentified

What does misidentified mean?
Misidentified means identified incorrectly.
What is misidentified the simple past and past participle of?
Misidentified is the simple past and past participle of misidentify.
What part of speech is misidentified?
Misidentified is an adjective.

Words near misidentified in the dictionary

  1. Misiaszeks
  2. Misibis
  3. misidentifiable
  4. misidentification
  5. misidentifications
  6. misidentified
  7. misidentifier
  8. misidentifiers
  9. misidentifies
  10. misidentify
  11. misidentifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misidentified (page history and authors); misidentify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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