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misnamed

misnamed is the simple past and past participle of misname.

Meaning of misname

Verb

misname (third-person singular simple present misnames, present participle misnaming, simple past and past participle misnamed)

  1. (transitive) To call by a wrong name.
    • Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.1990, Library Journal, page 9
    Synonyms:
    miscall, misnomer
  2. (transitive) To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
    • Near-synonym: misnomer
    Synonyms:
    misnomer

See all 3 meanings of misname

Adjective

misnamed (not generally comparable, comparative more misnamed, superlative most misnamed)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Named with a misleading or otherwise poorly suited name, whether poorly chosen or unfortunately evolved.

Forms of misnamed

comparativemore misnamed
superlativemost misnamed

Questions about misnamed

What does misnamed mean?
Misnamed means named with a misleading or otherwise poorly suited name, whether poorly chosen or unfortunately evolved.
What is misnamed the simple past and past participle of?
Misnamed is the simple past and past participle of misname.
What part of speech is misnamed?
Misnamed is an adjective.

Words near misnamed in the dictionary

  1. misnail
  2. misnailed
  3. misnailing
  4. misnails
  5. misname
  6. misnamed
  7. misnamer
  8. misnamers
  9. misnames
  10. misnaming
  11. misnamings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misnamed (page history and authors); misname (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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