mistimed, adj. 1. ill-timed, inopportune, inconvenient, untimely, badly timed, unseasonable, coming at the wrong time and wrong place; unsynchronized, un-synchronous, Inf. out of sync; too late, too early, ahead of time, behind time; unsuited, unsuitable, unfit, inappropriate, inapt, inaposite, infelicitous, unseemly, out-of-place, malapropos.
2. inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, untoward; unhappy, unfortunate, unlucky, ill-starred. mistiness, n. cloudiness, haziness, fogginess; dimness, blurriness, obscurity, paleness. mistreat, v. abuse, maltreat, mishandle, ill-use, ill-treat; wrong, aggrieve, do an injustice to, disrespect, walk all over [s.o.], Inf. shaft, Inf. give [s.o.] the shaft, SI. do one dirty, SI. kick around; bully, trample upon, bullyrag, hector, harass, grind, harry; persecute, torment, agonize, afflict, torture, rack, SI. give one the works; manhandle, maul, batter, SI. knock around or about, beat, beat up, pound, thrash, hit, strike, Archaic. belabor; harm, damage, bruise, hurt, pain, injure. mistreatment, n. abuse, maltreatment, ill-treatment, mishandling, ill-use, ill-usage; persecution, tormenting, torturing; manhandling, mauling, battery, beating, thrashing; harming, damage, hurting, injury. mistress, n. 1. female sovereign, headwoman, maharanee; matron, madam, Archaic, dame; housekeeper, homemaker; landlady, female proprietor, female owner, hostess.
2. British, schoolmistress, instructress, governess.
3. paramour, courtesan, concubine, kept woman, SI. doxy, odalisque.
4. Archaic, sweetheart, ladylove, flame, inamorata; beloved, darling, sweetie. mistrust, n. 1. distrust, distrustfulness, mistrustfulness, wariness, chariness, leeriness; doubt, skepticism, uncertainty, scruple, discredit; suspicion, qualm, misgiving, misdoubt, diffidence.
-v. 2. distrust, half-believe, misdoubt; doubt,
question, have reservations, greet with skepticism.
3. suspect, misbelieve, disbelieve, misgive; SI. smell a rat, have doubts, scent a fallacy, discredit. mistrustful, adj. suspicious, distrustful, untrustful, skeptical, cynical, incredulous; dubious, doubtful, uncertain, agnostic; apprehensive, anxious, leery, wary, chary. misty, adj. 1. cloudy, foggy, hazy, vaporous, brumous, smoggy, Archaic, caliginous; drizzly, moistful, spraylike; frosted, opaque, filmy, semipellucid, semitransparent.
2. obscure, vague, indistinct, obfuscated, indistinguishable; nebulous, shadowy, fuzzy, blurry, bleary, dusky; shapeless, formless, amorphous, undefined; unclear, dim, gray, mat; smoky, fuliginous, sooty, murky. misunderstand, v. misapprehend, misread, misconstrue, misconceive, misinterpret; misjudge, miscalculate, miscount, misreckon; read it wrong, get it all wrong, get the wrong idea, get a false impression, miss the point, see through a glass darkly. misunderstanding, n. 1. disagreement, variance, difference, clash, imbroglio, no meeting of the minds; dissension, dispute, controversy, discord; spat, tiff, quarrel, set-to, bicker; rift, falling out, split, rupture.
2. misapprehension, misconstruction, misreading, misconception, misinterpretation, miscalculation, mis-judgment; false impression, wrong idea, failure to get the drift. misusage, n. 1. misapplication, misemployment, misappropriation, misuse; impropriety, malapropism, solecism, catachresis, corruption, barbarism, bad grammar.