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Meaning of mismean | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.

transitive

Examples

“If we ever misstate the facts it is, alas, because sometimes we mismean the proposition that we utter.”
“To mismean is not to mean; to mismean is to honor a meaning glimpsed but unmeant.”

CEFR level

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

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