misstate
To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
Verb
- To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.
- Near-synonym: misreport
- The speaker misstated the year of his grandfather's birth by a hundred years, but it was an honest mistake: how often does one speak of the 1800s?
- Correction: August 21, 2017 An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Wuhan. It is in Hubei Province, not Hebei. - 2017 August 21 [2017 August 18], Kiki Zhao, “A Chinese Poet’s Unusual Path From...
Synonyms: misreport
Coordinate Terms: miscalculate
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state English misstate From mis- + state.