misencounter

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ encounter

Noun

misencounter (plural misencounters)

1. A bad or wrong encounter.
   • 1998, The Texas Review, volume 19, page 36:

     We had tried to meet on earlier occasions, which led to a couple of hilarious misencounters. The first time we were to meet at the Biltmore Men's Bar, (even the name is impossible today!) and I was waiting in the downstairs bar, and he was waiting in the upstairs bar, each thinking the other had stood him up!

   • 2006, Julio Ortega, Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature:

     As is logical, the meeting illustrates mutual differences until it becomes an emblem of a misencounter.

Anagrams

• counter-mines, countermines