misdealt
Definition
- Verb (past tense and past participle of ):
- To deal (cards) incorrectly: In card games, "misdealt" refers to having distributed the cards to players in a wrong or irregular manner, such as giving the wrong number of cards or dealing them out of order.
Usage Examples
- (The dealer made an error in distributing the cards.)
- (She discovered a mistake in the card distribution.)
Advanced Usage
- "misdealt hand": a hand of cards that was distributed incorrectly.
- We had to discard the misdealt hand and redeal. (We rejected the incorrectly distributed set of cards.)
Variants and Related Words
Misdeal (verb): to deal cards incorrectly.
- He tends to misdeal when he is distracted. (He often makes errors in card dealing.)
Misdealing (present participle): the act of dealing cards incorrectly.
- Misdealing can disrupt a game and cause frustration. (The action of dealing cards wrongly.)
Synonyms
- Bungled dealing: to have dealt cards in a clumsy or mistaken way.
- Erroneous distribution: an incorrect giving out of cards.
Related Idioms
- "a misdealt hand": used metaphorically to describe a situation that starts off badly or unfairly.
- Life dealt him a misdealt hand, but he made the best of it. (He faced a difficult beginning, but he adapted well.)
Different Meanings
- Card games only: "misdealt" is almost exclusively used in the context of card games and does not have a common figurative meaning outside of this domain.