misreact

misreact verb: to react inappropriately.

Verb

misreact (third-person singular simple present misreacts, present participle misreacting, simple past and past participle misreacted)

To react inappropriately.
- According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited."2002, Linda Wagner-Martin, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook, page 78
- From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life.2007, Martha Stout, The Paranoia Switch

David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices.2008, 2008, A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing, page 367:
After months or years of such 24/7 inflammation, the leaky gut deteriorates to the point that the immune system starts to overreact, crossreact, and misreact.2019, Palmer Kippola, Beat Autoimmune:

third-person singular present	misreacts
present participle	misreacting
past participle	misreacted
past	misreacted

From mis- + react.

What does misreact mean?: Misreact means to react inappropriately.
How do you use misreact in a sentence?: David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices.
What part of speech is misreact?: Misreact is a verb.
What is the past tense of misreact?: The past tense of misreact is misreacted.

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