miswarned
miswarned is the simple past and past participle of miswarn.
Meaning of miswarn
Verb
miswarn (third-person singular simple present miswarns, present participle miswarning, simple past and past participle miswarned)
- To warn of something that is not a threat; to cry wolf.
- Our friend, Commander de Champeaux, was not miswarned when he was told by the squaw he claimed as his squaw, 'to look out and not cross Chief Ma-chan-qua's pathway.'1905, Julia M. Baker Stapleford, Wah-see-ola, the Light of the Tribes at the Meeting Waters, page 180
Questions about miswarned
- What is miswarned the simple past and past participle of?
- Miswarned is the simple past and past participle of miswarn.
Words near miswarned in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: miswarned (page history and authors); miswarn (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “miswarned.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/miswarned. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
