Misestimate
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An erroneous estimate.
"This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces."
Verb
- 1 To estimate erroneously.
"[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance."
- 2 calculate incorrectly wordnet
- 3 to reckon wrongly wordnet
Example
More examples"[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance."
Etymology
From mis- + estimate.