Word.ws English Dictionary

misinvest

misinvest verb: to invest incorrectly or unwisely.

Verb

misinvest (third-person singular simple present misinvests, present participle misinvesting, simple past and past participle misinvested)

  1. To invest incorrectly or unwisely

Forms of misinvest

third-person singular presentmisinvests
present participlemisinvesting
past participlemisinvested
pastmisinvested

Origin of misinvest

From mis- + invest.

Questions about misinvest

What does misinvest mean?
Misinvest means to invest incorrectly or unwisely.
What part of speech is misinvest?
Misinvest is a verb.
What is the past tense of misinvest?
The past tense of misinvest is misinvested.

Words near misinvest in the dictionary

  1. misinterprets
  2. misintroduce
  3. misintroduced
  4. misintroduces
  5. misintroducing
  6. misinvest
  7. misinvested
  8. misinvesting
  9. misinvestment
  10. misinvestments
  11. misinvests

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misinvest (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “misinvest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/misinvest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.