Meaning

(intransitive) To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To misunderstand something; to disregard or fail to pay attention.
2. (transitive) To fail to look after properly.

Example Sentences

I would have cabled you to withdraw it from the Century, but I didn't, for I was sure I could depend upon Gilder's declining it. If he hasn't done it, please take it away from him and charge him with being drunk and misattending to his duties.

They ſhall recover the miſattended vvords of Chriſt to the ſincerity of their true ſenſe from manifold contradictions, and ſhall open them vvith the key of charity.

Then how do you account for Mr. Goffin stating that he gave a lesson on Thursday as usual ? — I did not hear the lesson. I must have been misattending if he did give one, because we were all changing.

From the bottom-up view, the reader with attention deficits may misattend to the salient features of words.

It is a case of 'epistemic drift' as defined by Kemeny (1999), in which discourses without firm disciplinary roots tend to misattend to facts and jump to misleading conclusions.

Soon after this, she removed from my district; and in the year 1861, again, for the eighth time, was pregnant, when she now fell under the care of an unqualified medical man, who had been appointed by a board of guardians to mis'''attend the poor of a large district.

However, I cannot leave this subject without lamenting the unfortuate attitude of certain members of the bar to misattend the execution of documents with complete disregard for their code of professional conduct.

Word Forms

• misattends
• misattending
• misattended

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Use misattend when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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