Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mistress
Participle: mistressed
Gerund: mistressing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mistress |
| you | mistress |
| he;she;it | mistresses |
| we | mistress |
| you | mistress |
| they | mistress |
Perfect
| I | have mistressed |
| you | have mistressed |
| he;she;it | has mistressed |
| we | have mistressed |
| you | have mistressed |
| they | have mistressed |
Past
| I | mistressed |
| you | mistressed |
| he;she;it | mistressed |
| we | mistressed |
| you | mistressed |
| they | mistressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mistressed |
| you | had mistressed |
| he;she;it | had mistressed |
| we | had mistressed |
| you | had mistressed |
| they | had mistressed |
Future
| I | will mistress |
| you | will mistress |
| he;she;it | will mistress |
| we | will mistress |
| you | will mistress |
| they | will mistress |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mistressed |
| you | will have mistressed |
| he;she;it | will have mistressed |
| we | will have mistressed |
| you | will have mistressed |
| they | will have mistressed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mistress |
| you | mistress |
| he;she;it | mistress |
| we | mistress |
| you | mistress |
| they | mistress |
Perfect
| I | have mistressed |
| you | have mistressed |
| he;she;it | have mistressed |
| we | have mistressed |
| you | have mistressed |
| they | have mistressed |
Imperfect
| I | mistressed |
| you | mistressed |
| he;she;it | mistressed |
| we | mistressed |
| you | mistressed |
| they | mistressed |
Pluperfect
| I | had mistressed |
| you | had mistressed |
| he;she;it | had mistressed |
| we | had mistressed |
| you | had mistressed |
| they | had mistressed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mistress |
| you | would mistress |
| he;she;it | would mistress |
| we | would mistress |
| you | would mistress |
| they | would mistress |
Perfect
| I | would have mistressed |
| you | would have mistressed |
| he;she;it | would have mistressed |
| we | would have mistressed |
| you | would have mistressed |
| they | would have mistressed |
Imperative
| you | mistress |
| we | Let's mistress |
| you | mistress |
Verbs conjugated like 'mistress'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mistress'
distress,
mispress,
misstress,
destress,
eustress,
instress,
mattress,
misguess,
mistreat,
mistrist,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.?
4. Proto-Italic *magisteros
5. Latin magister, magistrum
6. Old French maistre
7. Proto-Indo-European *-is
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
10. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)
11. Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor.
12. Latin -issader.
13. Old French -esse
14. Old French maistressebor.
15. Middle English maistresse
16. English mistress
17. From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess.
Sample Sentences
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These films give a glimpse of women on the way to mistressing their own destiny. [2013, Andrea Khalil, North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora:]
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[…] housewifery, maternity, charity, the life conventual, the chatter of a court, the mistressing of a great house […] [1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Maid Margaret of Galloway:]