Mislove
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love. countable, uncountable
"To a large extent, the mislove of the world is caused by lack of imagination. Your mother cannot recall her own youth, and so fails to project her personality into your later-generation thoughts and ambitions."
- 2 The act or object of misloving. countable, uncountable
"" […] their friendships, their loves, their “misloves," that the world instantly set her down as a spinster, a clever woman, but a double-twisted old maid."
- 1 To love wrongly, insufficiently, inadequately, or imperfectly. transitive
"Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold."
Example
More examples"Milkman "want(s) to get rich" on his own accord, so he misloves a woman (treats her like a whore) and gets an old car to ramble through ancestral homelands in search of gold."
Etymology
From mis- + love.
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