misconsider

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ consider

Verb

misconsider (third-person singular simple present misconsiders, present participle misconsidering, simple past and past participle misconsidered)

1. To consider wrongly; to misjudge.
   • 1996, Gill Aitken, Erica Burman, Pam Alldred, Psychology Discourse Practice: From Regulation to Resistance:

     Without such approaches we can only get a partial (and perhaps overly deterministic) view of discursive effects, which misconsider their processes of regulation.

   • 1999, Shahrukh A. Irani, Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems, page 566:

     Many of them, in fact, tend to misconsider the problem of production capacity.

   • 2012, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance, page 50:

     To misconsider the importance of a non-acousmatic experience in sound/music is, however, to neglect the possibility of how sources in sound contribute significantly to the communication of 'meaning' (particularly in the performance context).

   • 2013, Conor McCarthy, Love Sex & Marriage in the Middle Ages:

     I say this not of wives that are wise, But if it happens that they misconsider.