MISIDENTIFY Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

misidentify

verb

Definition of misidentify next

as in to misapply

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Recent Examples of misidentify Doing the work remotely can create safety risks because inspectors may miss or misidentify maintenance problems, the reported stated. —

ABC News, 20 Feb. 2026 Wear fluorescent orange to make sure other hunters do not misidentify you. —

Jacob Wilt, jsonline.com, 25 Nov. 2025 Studies have shown facial recognition systems misidentify women and people of color at far higher rates than white men. —

Joel Bervell, Time, 14 Nov. 2025 Without Jones or Ham helping the pass-protection unit, running backs Jordan Mason and Zavier Scott cannot afford to misidentify blitzers. —

Alec Lewis, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misidentify

Recent Examples of Synonyms for misidentify

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Without adjusting, companies will misapply probabilistic tools to deterministic problems and misinterpret their outcomes.

— Richie Etwaru, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
But sometimes people misapply the word tradition to things that are simply obsolete.

— Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024

Definition of misapply

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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.

— Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.

— Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019