misseem

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ seem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɪsˈsiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

Verb

misseem (third-person singular simple present misseems, present participle misseeming, simple past and past participle misseemed)

1. (literary) To be unbecoming to; not to suit. [from 15th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     Ne certes, daughter, that same warlike wize, / I weene, would you misseeme; for ye beene tall, / And large of limbe t'atchieve an hard emprize [...].

Anagrams

• mimeses