miscall
Verb: 1. To call by a wrong name; to misname: To give someone or something an incorrect name or designation. 2. To abuse or revile; to call names (archaic/obsolete): To insult someone by using offensive names. This meaning is now rarely used.
The verb "miscall" is used to describe the action of naming something incorrectly. It is a transitive verb, meaning it requires a direct object (the thing or person being wrongly named). The second, archaic meaning of insulting someone is largely obsolete in modern English.
- The teacher miscalled the new student, accidentally using her sister's name.
- Many people miscall this insect a "bug," but it is technically a beetle.
- (Archaic) The angry nobleman miscalled his servant a thief.
- "to miscall as": This structure can be used to specify the incorrect name that was applied.
- He miscalled the tool as a "wrench" when it was actually a spanner.
- Miscalling (gerund/noun): The act of calling by a wrong name.
- The frequent miscalling of the species led to confusion in the report.
- Misname (verb): A direct synonym meaning to give an incorrect name to. This is more common than "miscall" in modern usage.
- Misname: To call by a wrong name.
- Misidentify: To identify incorrectly.
- Mistitle: To give an incorrect title to.
- Identify correctly
- Name correctly
- Call by its right name
In contemporary English, "miscall" is a somewhat formal or literary word. In everyday speech, phrases like "call by the wrong name," "mix up names," or the more common synonym "misname" are often used instead. The archaic meaning of "to insult" is almost never encountered in modern contexts.
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assign in incorrect name to
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These misnamed philanthropists
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