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misreacted

misreacted is the simple past and past participle of misreact.

Meaning of misreact

Verb

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

  1. 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

Questions about misreacted

What is misreacted the simple past and past participle of?
Misreacted is the simple past and past participle of misreact.

Words near misreacted in the dictionary

  1. misreach
  2. misreached
  3. misreaches
  4. misreaching
  5. misreact
  6. misreacted
  7. misreacting
  8. misreaction
  9. misreactions
  10. misreacts
  11. misread

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misreacted (page history and authors); misreact (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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