misquote
/mɪsˈkwəʊt/
misquote verb: to incorrectly recite or record a quotation.
Verb
misquote (third-person singular simple present misquotes, present participle misquoting, simple past and past participle misquoted)
- To incorrectly recite or record a quotation.
- I'm so embarrassed, I misquoted Hamlet to a professor of Shakespeare.
- The newspaper had to publish a correction after they misquoted the President.
Noun
IPA/ˈmɪskwəʊt/
misquote (plural misquotes)
- An incorrect recitation or recording of a quotation.
misquote meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
misquote in Urdu
- غلط حوالہ دینا
misquote in Bengali
- ভুলভাবে উদ্ধৃত করা, কারো কথা ভুলভাবে বলা
misquote in Malayalam
- misrepresent, misreport, misstate
- തെറ്റി ഉദ്ധരിക്കുക, തെറ്റായി പ്രസ്താവിക്കുക, തെറ്റായി അവതരിപ്പിക്കുക, തെറ്റായ വാർത്ത കൊടുക്കുക, പ്രസ്താവന വളച്ചൊടിക്കുക, തെറ്റിദ്ധരിക്കുക
misquote in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪಾಗಿ ಉದಾಹರಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪಾಗಿ ಉಲ್ಲೇಖಿಸು
Forms of misquote
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misquotes |
| present participle | misquoting |
| past participle | misquoted |
| past | misquoted |
| Noun | |
| plural | misquotes |
Origin of misquote
From mis- + quote.
Words formed from misquote
Words that rhyme with misquote
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- oat
- quote
- connote
- groat
- remote
- scrote
- tote
- bote
- capote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- mote
- smote
- solar boat
- undercoat
- cote
- demote
- gloat
- pote
- refloat
- rote
- undernote
- wrote
- yote
- blót
- confidence vote
- disease boat
- end of quote
- end quote
- entrecôte
- flote
- frote
- ignote
- isot
- lote
- loth
- moth
- phot
- recoat
- rewrote
- shoat
- stoat
- swagger coat
- troat
- two hundred fifty-sixth note
- underquote
- underwrote
Questions about misquote
- What does misquote mean?
- Misquote means to incorrectly recite or record a quotation.
- What is misquote in Urdu?
- Misquote in Urdu is غلط حوالہ دینا. See Misquote meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is misquote?
- Misquote can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce misquote?
- Misquote is pronounced /mɪsˈkwəʊt/.
- What is the past tense of misquote?
- The past tense of misquote is misquoted.
Words near misquote in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misquote (page history and authors); misquote (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misquote (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misquote (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); misquote (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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