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increase in value.<br />

mismatched<br />

adj. mismated, ill-matched, ill-mated, incompatible, unfit,<br />

inappropriate, unsuited, unsuitable, incongruous, misallied,<br />

disparate, uncongenial, inconsistent, inharmonious, discordant:<br />

With her interest in art and his in football, they made a<br />

mismatched pair.<br />

misprint n. error, mistake, erratum, typographical error, printer's or<br />

printing error, Brit literal, Colloq typo: We cannot publish a<br />

book containing so many misprints.<br />

misrepresent<br />

v. distort, twist, pervert, garble, misstate, mangle, falsify,<br />

belie, disguise, colour: In his report, he misrepresented<br />

everything I said.<br />

miss° v. 1 skip, forgo, absent oneself from, be absent from, fail to<br />

keep; avoid, evade, escape, dodge, Colloq pass up: I missed my<br />

dentist's appointment. I missed school because my grandmother<br />

was ill. 2 long for, yearn for, pine for, feel nostalgia for, be<br />

nostalgic for or about, want, need, wish for: I miss those long<br />

summer evenings by the lake. 3 misunderstand, misinterpret,<br />

misconstrue, misapprehend, fail to understand or perceive,<br />

mistake: You have completely missed the point. 4 Sometimes,<br />

miss out (on). pass up, omit, leave out, slip up (on), overlook,<br />

let slip (by), let pass, pass over, disregard, ignore: You can<br />

be sure that Frobisher would never miss a free meal.<br />

--n. 5 omission, oversight, slip, failure, mistake, error,<br />

blunder, Colloq slip-up: A miss is as good as a mile.<br />

missý n. Ms., girl, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, young lady, young<br />

woman, schoolgirl, mademoiselle, nymphet, teenager, virgin,<br />

spinster, old maid, Brit bachelor girl, Irish English colleen,<br />

Literary nymph, Archaic demoiselle, damsel, Colloq old-fashioned<br />

gal, US coed, Valley girl, bachelorette, Slang teeny-bopper,<br />

groupie, Chiefly Brit bird, Old-fashioned US bobby-soxer: She's<br />

a pretty young miss, isn't she?<br />

misshapen adj. distorted, twisted, contorted, crooked, deformed,<br />

crippled, malformed, grotesque, awry, warped, gnarled,

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