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misopened

misopened is the simple past and past participle of misopen.

Meaning of misopen

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
  2. To do a bad job of opening.
    • Tensely, Michael removed pieces of cork from a misopened bottle.1986, Janet Hobhouse, November, page 59

Questions about misopened

What is misopened the simple past and past participle of?
Misopened is the simple past and past participle of misopen.

Words near misopened in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misopened (page history and authors); 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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