misreact

To react inappropriately.

Verb

  1. To react inappropriately.
    • According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited." - 2002, Linda...
    • From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life. - 2007, Martha Stout, The...
    • David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices. - 2008, 2008, A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing, page 367:

Origin

From mis- + react.

Forms

misreacts misreacting misreacted