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missource

missource verb: to source inappropriately or incorrectly.

Verb

missource (third-person singular simple present missources, present participle missourcing, simple past and past participle missourced)

  1. To source inappropriately or incorrectly.
    • We are also built to give, but even our giving is in our own mode and that mode is totally different from that missourced interpersonal energy exercised by most men (and unfortunately by many women).1991, Margarete Keulen, Radical Imagination, page 96
    • Perhaps the most important question about the future of augmenting collective action through the use of the Internet and mobile communications is the degree to which trustworthy and accurate information can be distinguished and screened from misleading, false, missourced information.2008, James Everett Katz, Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, page 237

Forms of missource

third-person singular presentmissources
present participlemissourcing
past participlemissourced
pastmissourced

Origin of missource

From mis- + source.

Questions about missource

What does missource mean?
Missource means to source inappropriately or incorrectly.
What part of speech is missource?
Missource is a verb.
What is the past tense of missource?
The past tense of missource is missourced.

Words near missource in the dictionary

  1. missounding
  2. missounds
  3. Missourah
  4. Missouran
  5. Missourans
  6. missource
  7. missourced
  8. missources
  9. missourcing
  10. Missouri
  11. Missouri canaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missource (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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