MISJUDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misjudge mean? 

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

1. judge incorrectly

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISJUDGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they misjudge    ... he / she / it misjudges   
Past simple: misjudged   
Past participle: misjudged   
-ing form: misjudging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Judge incorrectly

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

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

err; mistake; slip (to make a mistake or be incorrect)

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

underestimate; underrate (make too low an estimate of)

overestimate; overrate (make too high an estimate of)

miscalculate; misestimate (judge incorrectly)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

It pains me to be misjudged by so good a woman.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Nay, you misjudge him, Anson,” said my mother, warmly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wish I'd printed the whole or not at all, for I do hate to be so misjudged.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

How cruelly I have misjudged him!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down the blinds lest any one should see us and misjudge; and then he cried, till he laughed again; and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had misjudged you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Don't misjudge me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Wilson led viciously with his left, but misjudged his distance, receiving a smashing counter on the mark in reply which sent him reeling and gasping to the ropes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Heaven forgive me if I misjudge her, Rodney, but I think that the unfortunate woman has been drinking.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)