Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to misread
Participle: misread
Gerund: misreading
Indicative
Present
| I | misread |
| you | misread |
| he;she;it | misreads |
| we | misread |
| you | misread |
| they | misread |
Perfect
| I | have misread |
| you | have misread |
| he;she;it | has misread |
| we | have misread |
| you | have misread |
| they | have misread |
Past
| I | misread |
| you | misread |
| he;she;it | misread |
| we | misread |
| you | misread |
| they | misread |
Pluperfect
| I | had misread |
| you | had misread |
| he;she;it | had misread |
| we | had misread |
| you | had misread |
| they | had misread |
Future
| I | will misread |
| you | will misread |
| he;she;it | will misread |
| we | will misread |
| you | will misread |
| they | will misread |
Future Perfect
| I | will have misread |
| you | will have misread |
| he;she;it | will have misread |
| we | will have misread |
| you | will have misread |
| they | will have misread |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | misread |
| you | misread |
| he;she;it | misread |
| we | misread |
| you | misread |
| they | misread |
Perfect
| I | have misread |
| you | have misread |
| he;she;it | have misread |
| we | have misread |
| you | have misread |
| they | have misread |
Imperfect
| I | misread |
| you | misread |
| he;she;it | misread |
| we | misread |
| you | misread |
| they | misread |
Pluperfect
| I | had misread |
| you | had misread |
| he;she;it | had misread |
| we | had misread |
| you | had misread |
| they | had misread |
Conditional
Present
| I | would misread |
| you | would misread |
| he;she;it | would misread |
| we | would misread |
| you | would misread |
| they | would misread |
Perfect
| I | would have misread |
| you | would have misread |
| he;she;it | would have misread |
| we | would have misread |
| you | would have misread |
| they | would have misread |
Imperative
| you | misread |
| we | Let's misread |
| you | misread |
Verbs conjugated like 'misread'
beset,
broadcast,
burst,
bust,
cost,
crosscut,
cut,
forecast,
hit,
hurt,
inset,
let,
misread,
overset,
overspread,
put,
read,
rebroadcast,
recut,
relet, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'misread'
misdread,
mislead,
dispread,
lipread,
mindread,
misbear,
misdeal,
misfeed,
mishear,
misheed,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English misreden, from Old English misrǣdan (“to advise wrongly; read wrongly”), equivalent to mis- + read. Cognate with Saterland Frisian misräide (“to go wrong, fail”), Dutch misraden (“to guess wrongly”), German missraten (“to fail; go wrong; become wayward”). For the noun, compare Old English misrǣd (“misguidance; misconduct”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'misräide', Dutch '
misraden', German, old spelling '
missraten'.
Sample Sentences
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In the circumstances the Inspecting Officer concludes that the electric train motorman, despite his assertions to the contrary, misread the up main relief inner home signal for his own and ran past the up main through inner home signal at danger; he must therefore be held responsible for the accident. [1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:]
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Now I'm in / over my head, with something I said. / Completely misread I'm better off dead. [2002, “Over My Head (Better Off Dead)”, in Does This Look Infected? (CD), performed by Sum 41, Island Records, via YouTube, →OCLC:]
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Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is "shy or dimwitted" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected. [2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146:]
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[2020 August 6, James Vincent, “Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates”, in The Verge:]
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No South African believed it was possible—not to mention desirable—to write about the country’s white people without writing about its Black citizens; everybody’s self-understanding incorporates ideas proposed by people unlike themselves.“That doesn’t matter,” one of the editors told me, warning me I’d be “misread.” [2022 October 24, Eve Fairbanks, “Why Wasn’t I Canceled?”, in The Atlantic:]