mistiming
present participle ofmistime
mistime
verb[T]
uk/ˌmɪsˈtaɪm/us/ˌmɪsˈtaɪm/to do something at thewrongmomentwith theresultthat it isunsuccessfulor has anunwantedeffect:
She mistimed herswingand theballwent into thenet.
Early
- ahead
- ahead of
- be up with the larkidiom
- belatedly
- better
- better late than neveridiom
- early bird
- first
- get ahead ofyourselfidiom
- good
- ill-timed
- in good timeidiom
- postdate
- premature
- prematurely
- prepone
- pumpkin
- short
- the early bird catches the wormidiom
Examplesofmistiming
mistiming
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Whatever may be said in favour of that change, which is very little, it was obviously an appalling piece of economicmistiming.
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I apologise to my noble friend formistimingby a minute my entry.
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He spoke of themistimingof the debate.
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He has, throughout the discussions, been an opponent of federation, and not upon the grounds of timing ormistiming.
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This apparently carefulmistimingis repeated daily throughout the country, with a waste of uncounted hours and the exhausting of an untold fund of saintly patience.
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The plots were usually full of coincidences,mistimingand mistaken identities.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Luckily, nobody was injured in the erroneousmistiming.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Stokes then somehow missed from two yards out,mistiminghis back post volley.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fauntz led the competition after the compulsory dives, but slipped to third aftermistimingthe entry on her penultimate optional dive.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Snow took the first advantage, using the ropes to aid him with a neckbreaker butmistiminga flying leg drop.
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- goad
- goaded
- goading
- go adrift
- go-adrift
- goaf
- go-after
- go after sb
- go-after-sb
- go after someone
- go after sth
- go-after-sth
- go-against
- go against sb
- go-against-sb
- go against someone
- go against sth/sb
- go-against-sth-sb
- go against the flow
- go-against-the-flow
- go against the grain
- go-against-the-grain
- go ahead
- go-ahead
- goal