MISIDENTIFY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misidentify mean? 

• MISIDENTIFY (verb)
  The verb MISIDENTIFY has 1 sense:

1. identify incorrectly

  Familiarity information: MISIDENTIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISIDENTIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misidentify    ... he / she / it misidentifies   
Past simple: misidentified   
Past participle: misidentified   
-ing form: misidentifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identify incorrectly

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

misidentify; mistake

Context example:

Don't mistake her for her twin sister

Hypernyms (to "misidentify" is one way to...):

identify (consider to be equal or the same)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misidentify"):

confound; confuse (mistake one thing for another)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Previous research suggests they tend to be most accurate when assessing the gender of white men but misidentify women of color as much as one-third of the time.

(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)