misinfer

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ infer

Verb

misinfer (third-person singular simple present misinfers, present participle misinferring, simple past and past participle misinferred)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To infer incorrectly.

Synonyms

• misconclude

Related terms

• misinference

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “misinfer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)