[1835–45; mis-1 + estimate]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: basic, grandstand, hot plate, serial, squeegeemis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust
Examples of 'misestimate' in a sentence
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Disease-specific models may therefore misestimate social factors' effects on health.
Heather L. White, Patricia O'Campo, Flora I. Matheson, Rahim Moineddin 2013, 'Modeling the Cumulative Effects of Social Exposures on Health: Moving beyond Disease-SpecificModels', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthhttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/4/1186. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)