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misthink

/mɪsˈθɪŋk/

misthink verb: to think wrongly or badly (of).

Verb

misthink (third-person singular simple present misthinks, present participle misthinking, simple past and past participle misthought)

  1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To think wrongly or badly (of).
    • Adam misthought of her.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
    • Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought
      For things that others do, and when we fall
      We answer others’ merits in our name,
      Are therefore to be pitied.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To have sinful thoughts.

misthink meaning in Urdu and Bengali

misthink in Urdu

غلط سوچنا

misthink in Bengali

ভুল, খারাপ চিন্তা করা, পাপপূর্ণ চিন্তা থাকা

Forms of misthink

third-person singular presentmisthinks
present participlemisthinking
past participlemisthought
pastmisthought

Origin of misthink

From mis- + think.

Words that rhyme with misthink

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Questions about misthink

What does misthink mean?
Misthink means to think wrongly or badly (of).
What is misthink in Urdu?
Misthink in Urdu is غلط سوچنا. See Misthink meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is misthink?
Misthink is a verb.
How do you pronounce misthink?
Misthink is pronounced /mɪsˈθɪŋk/.
What is the past tense of misthink?
The past tense of misthink is misthought.

Words near misthink in the dictionary

  1. mistheorized
  2. mistheorizes
  3. mistheorizing
  4. misther
  5. misthers
  6. misthink
  7. misthinking
  8. misthinks
  9. misthought
  10. misthoughts
  11. misthread

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misthink (page history and authors); misthink (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misthink (Bengali 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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