misconceiving

English

Verb

misconceiving

1. present participle and gerund of misconceive

Adjective

misconceiving (comparative more misconceiving, superlative most misconceiving)

1. Having false ideas; misleading.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     through the helpe of his faire hornes on hight, / And misty dampe of misconceiuing night, / And eke through likenesse of his gotish beard, / He did the better counterfeite aright [...].