MISSTATEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misstatement mean? 

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

1. a statement that contains a mistake

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSTATEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A statement that contains a mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

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

error; mistake (part of a statement that is not correct)

malaprop; malapropism (the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar)

slip of the tongue (an accidental and usually trivial mistake in speaking)

Derivation:

misstate (state something incorrectly)