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misreacts

misreacts is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 misreacts

What is misreacts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misreacts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misreact.

Words near misreacts in the dictionary

  1. misreact
  2. misreacted
  3. misreacting
  4. misreaction
  5. misreactions
  6. misreacts
  7. misread
  8. misreadable
  9. misreader
  10. misreaders
  11. misreading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misreacts (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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