| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| misdemean | (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misconduct |
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| misdemeanor | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanour, violation |
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| misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| misdirection | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: mismanagement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distraction |
| (noun) incorrect directions or instructions | - |
| (noun) an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge | - |
| misdo | (verb) do wrongly or improperly | - |
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| miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | - |
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| miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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| miserable | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched |
| (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, paltry |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: wretched |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: suffering, wretched |
| miserableness | (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: misery, wretchedness |
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| miserably | (adverb) in a miserable manner | - |
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| miserliness | (noun) total lack of generosity with money | - |
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| miserly | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, tight |
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| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| misestimation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misreckoning |
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| misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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| misfire | (noun) an explosion that fails to occur | Synonyms: dud |
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| (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to fire or detonate | - |
| misfit | (noun) someone unable to adapt to their circumstances | - |
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| misfortunate | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| misfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: malfunction |
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| misgauge | (verb) gauge something incorrectly or improperly | - |
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| misgive | (verb) suggest fear or doubt | - |
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| misgiving | (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust, suspicion |
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| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: apprehension |
| (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | Synonyms: qualm, scruple |
| misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| misguide | (verb) give bad advice to | Synonyms: misadvise |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, mislead |
| misguided | (adjective) poorly conceived or thought out | Synonyms: ill-conceived |
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| (adjective) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment | Synonyms: mistaken |
| mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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| (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
| mishap | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mischance |
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| (noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mischance |
| mishegaas | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegoss |
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| mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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| mishmash | (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mishpocha | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpachah |
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| misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| misjudge | (verb) judge incorrectly | - |
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| mislabeled | (adjective) branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements | Synonyms: misbranded |
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| mislaid | (adjective) lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place | Synonyms: misplaced |
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| mislay | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: misplace |
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| mislead | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: misinform |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misdirect, misguide |
| misleader | (noun) someone who leads astray (often deliberately) | - |
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| misleading | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| misleadingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, deceptively |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| mismanage | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mishandle |
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| mismanagement | (noun) management that is careless or inefficient | Synonyms: misdirection |
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| mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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| mismatch | (noun) a bad or unsuitable match | - |
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| (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
| mismatched | (adjective) either not matched or unsuitably matched | - |
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| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents | Synonyms: uneven |
| mismate | (verb) provide with an unsuitable mate | - |
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| mismated | (adjective) not easy to combine harmoniously | Synonyms: ill-sorted, incompatible, unsuited |
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| misname | (verb) assign in incorrect name to | Synonyms: miscall |
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| misnomer | (noun) an incorrect or unsuitable name | - |
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| miso | (noun) a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces | - |
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| misocainea | (noun) hatred of new ideas | - |
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| misogamist | (noun) a person who hates marriage | - |
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| misogamy | (noun) hatred of marriage | - |
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| misogynic | (adjective) (used of men) having deep-seated distrust of women | - |
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| misogynism | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogyny |
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| misogynist | (noun) a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular | Synonyms: woman hater |
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| misogynistic | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynous |
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| misogynous | (adjective) hating women in particular | Synonyms: misogynistic |
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| misogyny | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogynism |
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| misology | (noun) hatred of reasoning | - |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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| misperceive | (verb) perceive incorrectly | - |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position | - |
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| (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: mislay |
| misplaced | (adjective) put in the wrong place or position | - |
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| (adjective) lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place | Synonyms: mislaid |
| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| misplay | (noun) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed | Synonyms: error |
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| (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| misprint | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal, literal error, typo, typographical error |
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| (verb) print incorrectly | - |
| mispronounce | (verb) pronounce a word incorrectly | Synonyms: misspeak |
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| mispronunciation | (noun) incorrect pronunciation | - |
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| misquotation | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquote |
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| misquote | (noun) an incorrect quotation | Synonyms: misquotation |
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| (verb) quote incorrectly | - |
| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| misrelated | (adjective) mistakenly related | - |
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| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| misrepresentation | (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, deception |
| misrepresented | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, perverted, twisted |
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| misrule | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misgovernment |
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| miss | (noun) a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) | Synonyms: misfire |
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| (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, girl, missy, young lady, young woman |
| (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: escape |
| (verb) fail to reach | - |
| (verb) feel or suffer from the lack of | - |
| (verb) fail to reach or get to | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) be without | Synonyms: lack |
| (verb) fail to attend an event or activity | - |
| (verb) be absent | - |
| missal | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year | - |
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| missed | (adjective) not caught with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lost |
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| misshapen | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed |
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| misshapenness | (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, malformation |
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| missile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: projectile |
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| (noun) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control | - |
| missing | (adjective) not able to be found | - |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, wanting |