misknow

[ mis-noh ]

/ mɪsˈnoʊ /

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verb (used with object), mis·knew, mis·known, mis·know·ing.

to fail to understand or recognize; misunderstand: to misknow the problem.

Origin of misknow

First recorded in 1250–1300, misknow is from the Middle English word misknowen.See mis-¹, know¹

OTHER WORDS FROM misknow

mis·knowl·edge

[mis-nol-ij], /mɪsˈnɒl ɪdʒ/, noun

Words nearby misknow

misinformation, misinterpret, misjoinder, misjudge, Miskito, misknow, Miskolc, mislabel, mislay, mislead, misleading

Example sentences from the Web for misknow

He also scolds Bacon for being afraid that Buckingham's height of fortune might make him "misknow himself."
The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck|Thomas Longueville
Why should we misknow one another, fight not against the enemy but against ourselves, from mere difference of uniform?
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History|Thomas Carlyle
It would be greatly to misknow Gibbon to suppose that his studies at Lausanne were restricted to the learned languages.
Gibbon|James Cotter Morison