Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To mate or match unsuitably.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To mate or match amiss or unsuitably.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To mate wrongly or unsuitably; to mismatch
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide with an unsuitable mate
Etymologies
- mis- + mate (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It is likewise astonishing that people select homes, mostly for pecuniary betterment, when their children will mate or mismate with those whom they are thus thrown.”
Lists
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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