Syn. -- Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress;
calamity; misfortune.
Mis`es*teem" (?), n. [Cf. F. mésestime.] Want of esteem; disrespect.
Johnson.
Mis*es"ti*mate (?), v. t. To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
Mis*ex`pla*na"tion (?), n. An erroneous explanation.
Mis*ex`pli*ca"tion (?), n. Wrong explication.
Mis*ex`po*si"tion (?), n. Wrong exposition.
Mis`ex*pound" (?), v. t. To expound erroneously.
Mis`ex*pres"sion (?), n. Wrong expression.
Mis*faith" (?), n. Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your
misfaith." Tennyson.
Mis*fall" (?), v. t. [imp. Misfell; p. p. Misfallen (&?;); p. pr. & vb.
n. Misfalling.] To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Mis*fare" (?), v. i. [AS. misfaran.] To fare ill. [Obs.] -- n.
Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.
Mis*fash"ion (?), v. t. To form wrongly.
Mis*fea"sance (?), n. [OF. pref. mes- wrong (L. minus less) + faisance
doing, fr. faire to do, L. facere. Cf. Malfeasance.] (Law) A trespass;
a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might
lawfully do. Bouvier. Wharton.
Mis*fea"ture (?), n. Ill feature. [R.] Keats.
Mis*feel"ing (?), a. Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Mis*feign" (?), v. i. To feign with an evil design. [Obs.] Spenser.
Mis*fit" (?), n. 1. The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit
in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.