misintended
/ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/
misintended is the simple past and past participle of misintend.
Meaning of misintend
Verb
misintend (third-person singular simple present misintends, present participle misintending, simple past and past participle misintended)
Adjective
misintended (not comparable)
- Aimed amiss or wrongly.
- One of thoſe archers cloſely I did ſpy, / ayming his arrovv at my very hart: / vvhen ſuddenly vvith tvvincle of her eye, / the Damzell broke his miſintended dart.1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XVI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, verso
- An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action.1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature, page 233
Origin of misintended
From misintend + -ed.
From mis- + intended.
Questions about misintended
- What does misintended mean?
- Misintended means aimed amiss or wrongly.
- What is misintended the simple past and past participle of?
- Misintended is the simple past and past participle of misintend.
- What part of speech is misintended?
- Misintended is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce misintended?
- Misintended is pronounced /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/.
Words near misintended in the dictionary
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