misreact

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ react.

Verb

misreact (third-person singular simple present misreacts, present participle misreacting, simple past and past participle misreacted)

1. To react inappropriately.
   • 2002, Linda Wagner-Martin, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook, page 78:

     According to Peter Griffin, Hemingway's naturalized conception of homosexuals was based on their “tendency to overreact or, better, to misreact, because their emotions were somehow short-circuited."

   • 2007, Martha Stout, The Paranoia Switch:

     From neuropsychological research, we knowthat the traumatized brain houses inscrutable eccentricities that cause it to overreact—or, more precisely,misreact—to the current realities of life.

   • 2008, 2008, A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing, page 367:

     David–Veronesi suggest that the features that they highlight imply the possibility that option prices misreact to changes in stock prices.

   • 2009, Catherine Cornille, Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue:

     And because it projects narrow representations of others as “friend,” “enemy,” or “stranger” that hide their fullness and mystery, we continually misreact to others, causing ourselves and others further misery.

   • 2019, Palmer Kippola, Beat Autoimmune:

     After months or years of such 24/7 inflammation, the leaky gut deteriorates to the point that the immune system starts to overreact, crossreact, and misreact.