misestimateEtymologyFrom mis- + estimate.nounAn erroneous estimate.“This was due not to pro-German sympathies but to a plain misestimate (not confined to him) of the real relative strengths of the various political forces.”verbTo estimate erroneously.“[W]e shall infallibly bestow a disproportionate attention upon those which our theory takes into account, while we mis-estimate the rest, and probably underrate their importance.”