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misjudge

misjudge verb: to make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.

Verb

misjudge (third-person singular simple present misjudges, present participle misjudging, simple past and past participle misjudged)

  1. To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
    • I misjudged you. I don't like your politics but I appreciate your loyalty to your friends.

misjudge meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

misjudge in Tamil

மாறாகக் கருது, தவறான தீர்ப்பளி

misjudge in Urdu

غلط اندازہ لگانا, غلط سمجھنا

misjudge in Bengali

ভুল বিচার করা, ভুল আন্দাজ করা

misjudge in Malayalam

judge incorrectly, get the wrong idea about, get wrong
തെറ്റായി വിധിക്കുക, തെറ്റായ അഭിപ്രായം രൂപീകരിക്കുക, തെറ്റായിഊഹിക്കുക, തെറ്റായി അനുമാനിക്കുക, വിപരീതാർത്ഥം ധരിക്കുക, തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക
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misjudge in Kannada
ತಪ್ಪು ತೀರ್ಮಾನಕ್ಕೆ ಬರು, ತಪ್ಪು ನಿರ್ಧಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬರು, ತಪ್ಪು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಪಡು, ದುರಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಹೊಂದು

Examples of misjudge in a sentence

  • In my martinied state I misjudged this distance and pricked myself.
  • Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.
  • They misapprehended the intentions and capabilities of our enemies, miscalculated the strength of communism, and misjudged the threat of terrorism.

All 17 example sentences with misjudge

Forms of misjudge

third-person singular presentmisjudges
present participlemisjudging
past participlemisjudged
pastmisjudged

Past tense of misjudge: misjudged

Origin of misjudge

From mis- + judge.

Words formed from misjudge

Questions about misjudge

What does misjudge mean?
Misjudge means to make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
What is misjudge in Tamil?
Misjudge in Tamil is மாறாகக் கருது, தவறான தீர்ப்பளி. See Misjudge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is misjudge?
Misjudge is a verb.
What is the past tense of misjudge?
The past tense of misjudge is misjudged.

Words near misjudge in the dictionary

  1. misjoinder
  2. misjoinders
  3. misjoined
  4. misjoining
  5. misjoins
  6. misjudge
  7. misjudged
  8. misjudgement
  9. misjudgements
  10. misjudger
  11. misjudgers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: misjudge (page history and authors); misjudge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misjudge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misjudge (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misjudge (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misjudge (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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