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misnames

misnames is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Questions about misnames

What is misnames the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misnames is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misname.

Words near misnames in the dictionary

  1. misnails
  2. misname
  3. misnamed
  4. misnamer
  5. misnamers
  6. misnames
  7. misnaming
  8. misnamings
  9. misnarrate
  10. misnarrated
  11. misnarrates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misnames (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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