Meaning

To situate incorrectly..

Example Sentences

Donald W. Hanson mounts what, to my mind, is a not terribly convincing case that Hobbes has been missituated as a founding father of realism, and calls Hobbes's mode of thought "unrealistic," "apolitical," and "transhistorical.'"

This, of course, is not to deny that suffering tends to impair the functioning of a human, that it tends to inhibit its teleological sojourn, but it is to suggest that Taylor's teleological account of benefits and harms, at least insofar as this phenomenon is concerned, missituates the badness of pain.

Somewhat more severe is the idea that the problem is missituated.

Oliveira overwrites and missituates the political intent of the collective in characterizing the first series of Cadernos Negros as having a “careless use of grammar and language” and “overly simplified structure of texts” (“Cadernos Negros" 102, Writing 68).

Word Forms

• missituates
• missituating
• missituated

When Should You Use Missituate?

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

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