"mismotivate" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "motivate"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + motivate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + motivate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mismotivates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mismotivate (third-person singular simple present mismotivates, present participle mismotivating, simple past and past participle mismotivated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with mis-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Business Education World - Volume 24, page 397:",
          "text": "We who are supposed to direct the skill learning of students bear a heavy responsibility here. We should motivate — not mis'''motivate; direct — not misdirect.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves:",
          "text": "It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273:",
          "text": "On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To motivate toward the wrong goal."
      ],
      "id": "en-mismotivate-en-verb-VPyYy5Nu",
      "links": [
        [
          "motivate",
          "motivate"
        ],
        [
          "goal",
          "goal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mismotivate"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "motivate"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + motivate",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + motivate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mismotivates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mismotivated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mismotivate (third-person singular simple present mismotivates, present participle mismotivating, simple past and past participle mismotivated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with mis-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, Business Education World - Volume 24, page 397:",
          "text": "We who are supposed to direct the skill learning of students bear a heavy responsibility here. We should motivate — not mis'''motivate; direct — not misdirect.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves:",
          "text": "It is confusion between having a fixed nature and having a fixed future that mismotivates the anguish over determinism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Allen Lawrence, Laura Edwards, “Self-Help in Gynecological Practice”, in Martha Kirkpatrick, editor, Women’s Sexual Development: Explorations of Inner Space, page 273:",
          "text": "On the other hand, a woman with a major or recurrent problem (VD, unplanned pregnancies, recurrent vaginal infection, anorgasmia, etc.) needs guidance to find the root of her problem: Has she “mismotivated” herself”? Has she lost her “healthy image” of herself?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To motivate toward the wrong goal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "motivate",
          "motivate"
        ],
        [
          "goal",
          "goal"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mismotivate"
}