Meaning

1 senses

  1. To ascribe wrongly.

    Some people misascribe the works of Shakespeare to other writers.

Origin

From mis- + ascribe.

From mis- + ascribe.

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Forms

misascribes, misascribing, misascribed, misascribed
Base formmisascribe · to misascribe
3rd person singularmisascribes
Present participlemisascribing
Past simplemisascribed
Past participlemisascribed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisascribe
he, she, itmisascribes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisascribed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave misascribed
he, she, ithas misascribed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misascribe

Synonyms

1 synonyms
misattribute

Word family

3 related words
Relatedmisascriptionmisdescribemisdescription

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misanthropemisanthropicmisanthropymisappropriatemisbehavemiscalculatemiscalculationmiscarriage
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