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mislive

/mɪsˈlɪv/

mislive verb: to lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.

Verb

mislive (third-person singular simple present mislives, present participle misliving, simple past and past participle mislived)

  1. To lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.

Forms of mislive

third-person singular presentmislives
present participlemisliving
past participlemislived
pastmislived

Origin of mislive

From Middle English misliven, from Old English mislibban (“to lead a bad life”), equivalent to mis- + live.

Words formed from mislive

Questions about mislive

What does mislive mean?
Mislive means to lead a wrong, corrupt, or evil life; to live wrongly.
What part of speech is mislive?
Mislive is a verb.
How do you pronounce mislive?
Mislive is pronounced /mɪsˈlɪv/.
What is the past tense of mislive?
The past tense of mislive is mislived.

Words near mislive in the dictionary

  1. mislistening
  2. mislistens
  3. mislisting
  4. mislists
  5. mislit
  6. mislive
  7. mislived
  8. misliver
  9. mislivers
  10. mislives
  11. misliving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mislive (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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