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📝 A printing mistake 📝 To print wrongly
to misprint

to misprint

1 3.2
To put a wrong name or number in a text
  • verb
  • /ˈmɪsˌprɪnt/
translation icon : imprimir incorrectamente
  • You may explain that the last pages were so misprinted that we had to destroy them—or find some other explanation" (17, p. 345).

Examples

  • The name was misprinted; it was supposed to be Tara Browne.

    Blog text (11)

  • We noticed that the invitation was misprinted with the wrong date.

  • I misprinted in my post in reference to Geddy Lee.

    Blog text (3)

  • In the Fall 2000 edition of Springboard, we misprinted two e-mail addresses.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Such disparaging remarks, triggered by a viewing of misprinted textiles, repeat ethnic prejudices that have long held sway in Nigeria.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Lynn Maniscalco notified us that the email address for the PPD Chair was misprinted on the PSA exhibition entry form and that the correct address for Richard Emery is remery@cts.com.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The appearance in Nigeria of such dislocated images, and of those misprinted on the textiles at hand, testifies to the massive productive power of the Walt Disney Company and to the capacity of transnational media corporations in general to replicate themselves around the world through unexpected channels.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The publisher misprinted the book cover, so they had to redo it before release.

  • After reviewing the proof, they found that several words were misprinted.

Synonyms

to misspell
vsto misprint
36 1.7

Write a word or name with the wrong letters

is an error in printed material that can include layout, content, or spelling mistakes

How Accurate

to print
397 1.0
to misprint
1 3.2
to garble
8 8.0
to mangle
19 7.2

Surface Forms

misprint infinitive
misprinted past
misprinted past participle
misprinting present participle
misprints third person singular

Morphology

misprint = print (transparent) = mis + print

The verb is formed by prefixing 'mis-' to the verb 'print' giving the clear meaning 'to print incorrectly'.

Etymology

Misprint is made of mis- ('wrong') and print ('to make text on paper'). To misprint something is to print it 'wrong', for example printing a name or number with a mistake.