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misopen

misopen verb: to open what one should not open.

Verb

misopen (third-person singular simple present misopens, present participle misopening, simple past and past participle misopened)

  1. To open what one should not open.
    • But this argument hadn't really been about trust, or homework, or misopened mail, and we both knew it.1978, Norma Johnston, If You Love Me, Let Me Go, page 18
    • The fresh air hit him, and for a moment he could almost put a name on the stink that came out of the misopened gate.2014, R. A. MacAvoy, The Book of Kells
  2. To do a bad job of opening.
    • Tensely, Michael removed pieces of cork from a misopened bottle.1986, Janet Hobhouse, November, page 59

Forms of misopen

third-person singular presentmisopens
present participlemisopening
past participlemisopened
pastmisopened

Origin of misopen

From mis- + open.

Questions about misopen

What does misopen mean?
Misopen means to open what one should not open.
What part of speech is misopen?
Misopen is a verb.
What is the past tense of misopen?
The past tense of misopen is misopened.

Words near misopen in the dictionary

  1. misopaedia
  2. misopedia
  3. misopedic
  4. misopedist
  5. misopedists
  6. misopen
  7. misopened
  8. misopening
  9. misopens
  10. misoperate
  11. misoperated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misopen (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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