MISALLIANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misalliance mean? 

• MISALLIANCE (noun)
  The noun MISALLIANCE has 1 sense:

1. an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)

  Familiarity information: MISALLIANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISALLIANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("misalliance" is a kind of...):

marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock (the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misalliance"):

mesalliance (a marriage with a person of inferior social status)

Derivation:

misally (make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately)