Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To count or estimate incorrectly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To calculate erroneously; make a wrong estimate of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To calculate erroneously.
  • verb To judge wrongly, especially about the effects of action or the likely course of events.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To incorrectly calculate; to make a gross error in judgement.
  • verb To make a gross error in judgement.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb judge incorrectly
  • verb calculate incorrectly

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ calculate

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Examples

  • Yes, they 'miscalculate' brittle for hardness, it replaces the more flexible calcium structures and soon enough it's crown time at the dentist to help with his boat payments.

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  • Sooner or later, one side or the other would miscalculate.

    The China Challenge Henry Kissinger 2011

  • Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2010

  • In "Obama and the 'Bitter' Clingers—Round Two" Main Street, Feb. 7, William McGurn asks, in reference to the new contraception mandate, "How could the administration so miscalculate the fallout from its action?"

    Obama Knows Exactly What He's Doing on Mandates 2012

  • This way you will not miscalculate when you are hungry, and you will create a small obstacle to consuming too much at one sitting.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • This way you will not miscalculate when you are hungry, and you will create a small obstacle to consuming too much at one sitting.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • Also, with due respect for my fellow moms and dads, as a recent New York Times article by Lisa Belkin points out, parents, as a group, often miscalculate what actually puts children in danger.

    Larry Magid: Survey: Parents Worry About Kids' Online Privacy: But are Worries Based on Facts? Larry Magid 2010

  • The Israeli government is so concerned that America's adversaries may miscalculate U.S. intentions that it is privately urging Washington to make it clear that the U.S. would intervene in Saudi Arabia should the survival of that government be threatened.

    The Arab Spring and U.S. Policy: The View From Jerusalem Ted Koppel 2011

  • GM, he says, would neither miscalculate nor misrepresent something this critical to promised performance and this easily debunked.

    Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011

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