Home › Words › M › misimprintmisimprintmisimprint means to imprint wrongly.EtymologyFrom mis- + imprint.verbTo imprint wrongly.e.g.“That is, by way of this initial imprinting the young animal becomes a socialized member of its species. Animals misimprinted to other species show a variety of abnormal social behaviors as adults.” — 1977, Dorothy Rogers, Issues in child psychology, page 62:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.misstamp 72% match — To stamp incorrectly. vs misimprint →misimpute 70% match — To impute erroneously. vs misimprint →misprint 69% match — An accidental mistake in print. vs misimprint →misimplant 68% match — To implant incorrectly. vs misimprint →misimagine 67% match — To imagine incorrectly; to form an inaccurate mental image of. vs misimprint →misimitation 67% match — The act of misimitating; defective imitation. vs misimprint →misduplicate 67% match — To duplicate incorrectly. vs misimprint →mispaint 65% match — To paint incorrectly; paint falsely or in wrong colours. vs misimprint →