misestimate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ estimate.

Verb

misestimate (third-person singular simple present misestimates, present participle misestimating, simple past and past participle misestimated)

1. To estimate erroneously.
   • 1846, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Rationcinative and Inductive, volume IV, page 560:

     [W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:

     However, in the absence of real data on actual language use in the aural-oral landscape, there will always exist the possibility to misestimate such impacts.

Hyponyms

• misunderestimate (verb)

Related terms

• misextrapolate (verb)
• misproject (verb)

Noun

misestimate (plural misestimates)

1. An erroneous estimate.
   • 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 76:

     This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces.

   • 2002, Nick Mordin, Winning Without Thinking: A Guide to Horse Race Betting Systems, →ISBN, page 397:

     To illustrate the nature of this problem, a misestimate of 0.01 on a favorite whose true winning probability is 0.20 is, in percentage terms, quite small compared to a misestimate of 0.01 on a long shot whose true winning probability is 0.04.

Hyponyms

• misunderestimation (noun)

Related terms

• misextrapolation (noun)
• misprojection (noun)