Word.ws English Dictionary

mismotion

mismotion noun: bad or wrong motion.

Noun

mismotion (uncountable)

  1. Bad or wrong motion.
    • He couldn't work at tennis because he was so naturally good at tennis. And when all of those inborn reflexes failed him — as if he were shocked at the mismotion of his own arm, at the slowness of his own leg — then we understood John McEnroe.2000, Nicholas Delbanco, The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, page 69

Origin of mismotion

From mis- + motion.

Questions about mismotion

What does mismotion mean?
Mismotion means bad or wrong motion.
What part of speech is mismotion?
Mismotion is a noun.

Words near mismotion in the dictionary

  1. mismolds
  2. mismother
  3. mismothered
  4. mismothering
  5. mismothers
  6. mismotion
  7. mismotivate
  8. mismotivated
  9. mismotivates
  10. mismotivating
  11. mismould

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mismotion (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: “mismotion.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mismotion. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.