misadvised

misadvised

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English advised
English misadvised

    From mis- + advised.

    Verb

    misadvised

    1. simple past and past participle of misadvise

    Adjective

    misadvised (comparative more misadvised, superlative most misadvised)

    1. (obsolete) Showing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.
      • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
        Therefore to make complaynt
        Of such mysadvysed
        Parsons and dysgysed,
        Thys boke we have devysed, […]

    Derived terms

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