Usually means: To inaccurately represent or report facts.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word misstate:

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  1. misstate: Merriam-Webster
  2. misstate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misstate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. misstate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misstate: Vocabulary.com
  6. misstate: Wordnik
  7. misstate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. misstate: Wiktionary
  9. misstate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. misstate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. misstate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Misstate, misstate: Dictionary.com
  13. Misstate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. misstate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. misstate: Rhymezone
  16. Misstate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. misstate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. misstate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. misstate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. misstate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misstate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (misstate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make a statement that is in error, inadvertently; to say (something) incorrectly, through a slip of the tongue.

Similar:
misstep, misallege, mistell, missay, misdeclare, misfigure, misunderstate, misdefine, mistalk, misword, more...

Opposite:
state correctly, articulate, express accurately, convey accurately, communicate clearly

Types:
misspeak, mispoke, mislabel, mischaracterize, misinform, more...

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Similar:
misstep, misallege, mistell, missay, misdeclare, misfigure, misunderstate, misdefine, mistalk, misword, more...

Opposite:
state correctly, articulate, express accurately, convey accurately, communicate clearly

Types:
misspeak, mispoke, mislabel, mischaracterize, misinform, more...



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