Miscalculate

/mɪsˈkælkjʊleɪt/

Synonyms for "miscalculate" (69 found)

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Closest matches (14)

Verb(3 words)
Noun(7 words)
blunderserr in calculationerrorerror countederror founderrorserrors in counting

Strong matches (21)

fall into errorgo amissgo astraygo awrygo wrongjudge amisslapsemisappreciatemiscomputemisconjecturemisconstruemiscount
Noun(6 words)

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approximationarithmetical errorballpark figurecalculation errormath errorrough estimate

Collocations

5 entries
arithmetic errorcalculation errorcareless calculationfaulty calculationmath error

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He didn't miscalculate.

Source: tatoeba (11039503)

They miscalculated by assuming the dimensions were in imperial, not metric.

Source: wiktionary

Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.

Source: wiktionary

Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.

Source: wiktionary

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