misask

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly

rare, transitive

Examples

“Mr. Morris. Did that include ⟳ the five seamen now in Moscow? I may have ⟳ misasked the question ⟳ then.”

“As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ⟳ ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre, whether or not we have ⟳ been mis-asking questions about Beckett's art.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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See also

misasked misasking misasks misassemble misassembled misassembles

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