"misintend" meaning in English

See misintend in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: misintends [present, singular, third-person], misintending [participle, present], misintended [participle, past], misintended [past]
Etymology: From mis- + intend. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|intend}} mis- + intend Head templates: {{en-verb}} misintend (third-person singular simple present misintends, present participle misintending, simple past and past participle misintended)
  1. (transitive) To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean. Tags: transitive Derived forms: misintended, misintending, misintention
    Sense id: en-misintend-en-verb-sDfGd5ZS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for misintend meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "intend"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + intend",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + intend.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misintends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintended",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "misintend (third-person singular simple present misintends, present participle misintending, simple past and past participle misintended)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "misintended"
        },
        {
          "word": "misintending"
        },
        {
          "word": "misintention"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: facts and problems - Page 145",
          "text": "Come therefore, gentle death, and ease my griefe; Cut short what malice Fortune misintends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Samuel Charles Coval, Peter G. Campbell, Agency in action: the practical rational agency machine - Page 114",
          "text": "He is now misintending: he has a false intention.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean."
      ],
      "id": "en-misintend-en-verb-sDfGd5ZS",
      "links": [
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "amiss",
          "amiss"
        ],
        [
          "wrongfully",
          "wrongfully"
        ],
        [
          "mismean",
          "mismean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misintend"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "misintended"
    },
    {
      "word": "misintending"
    },
    {
      "word": "misintention"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis",
        "3": "intend"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + intend",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mis- + intend.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "misintends",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintending",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintended",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "misintended",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "misintend (third-person singular simple present misintends, present participle misintending, simple past and past participle misintended)",
      "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 transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1967, Arthur Freeman, Thomas Kyd: facts and problems - Page 145",
          "text": "Come therefore, gentle death, and ease my griefe; Cut short what malice Fortune misintends.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Samuel Charles Coval, Peter G. Campbell, Agency in action: the practical rational agency machine - Page 114",
          "text": "He is now misintending: he has a false intention.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intend",
          "intend"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "direct",
          "direct"
        ],
        [
          "amiss",
          "amiss"
        ],
        [
          "wrongfully",
          "wrongfully"
        ],
        [
          "mismean",
          "mismean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To intend, purpose, or direct amiss or wrongfully; mismean."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misintend"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.