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misestimate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb misestimate has 2 senses
- misestimate(v = verb.cognition) miscalculate - judge incorrectly; "I had misestimated his determination" is one way to misjudge
- misestimate(v = verb.cognition) miscalculate - calculate incorrectly; "I miscalculated the number of guests at the wedding" is one way to calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out
Sample sentences:
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Derived form noun misestimation1
Sample sentence:
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ROGET THESAURUS
misestimate
Misjudgment
VB misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive, fly in the face of facts, miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute, overestimate, underestimate, prejudge, forejudge, presuppose, presume, prejudicate, dogmatize, have a bias, have only one idea, jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions, look only at one side of the shield, view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles, not see beyond one's nose, dare pondus fumo, get the wrong sow by the ear, give a bias, give a twist, bias, warp, twist, prejudice, prepossess.
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