misknow

[ mis-noh ]

verb (used with object)

, mis·knew, mis·known, mis·know·ing.

1. to fail to understand or recognize; misunderstand:

   to misknow the problem.

Other Words From

• mis·knowl·edge [mis-, nol, -ij], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of misknow¹

First recorded in 1250–1300, misknow is from the Middle English word misknowen. See mis- ¹, know ¹

Example Sentences

Misknow, mis-nō′, v.t. to misapprehend.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Byron did not misknow himself, nor misapprehend the most marked turn of his own character when he wrote the lines— I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the universe and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.

From Project Gutenberg

Better to know them all than misknow them.

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Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?

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It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.

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Related Words

• confuse
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