misestimate

American  

[mis-es-tuh-meyt, mis-es-tuh-mit] / mɪsˈɛs təˌmeɪt, mɪsˈɛs tə mɪt /

verb (used with object)

misestimated, misestimating

1. to estimate wrongly or inadequately.

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noun

1. a wrong or inadequate estimate.

Other Word Forms

• misestimation noun

Etymology

Origin of misestimate

First recorded in 1835–45; mis- ¹ + estimate

Example Sentences

Many of the first-year sites were in high-poverty neighborhoods — and that could be one reason for the misestimate, he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2016

Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a magazine article a few months later, he accused Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II of making a "shocking misestimate" of the situation, which belatedly prompted cancellation of Eisenhower's trip to Japan.

From Time Magazine Archive

I would not have survived had not Roebuck and his crowd been at the same time making an even more colossal misestimate of me than I was making of them.

From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham

I believe we misestimate Mahomet’s faults even as faults: but the secret of him will never be got by dwelling there.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas