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miswanting

miswanting is the present participle and gerund of miswant.

Meaning of miswant

Verb

miswant (third-person singular simple present miswants, present participle miswanting, simple past and past participle miswanted)

  1. (transitive) To want (something) even though it will probably lead to one's own harm or unhappiness (e.g. an addictive drug).

Questions about miswanting

What is miswanting the present participle and gerund of?
Miswanting is the present participle and gerund of miswant.

Words near miswanting in the dictionary

  1. miswandered
  2. miswandering
  3. miswanders
  4. miswant
  5. miswanted
  6. miswanting
  7. miswants
  8. miswarn
  9. miswarned
  10. miswarning
  11. miswarns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miswanting (page history and authors); miswant (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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