Home › Words › M › mismeetmismeetmismeet · verb — to come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom mis- + meet.verbTo come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.e.g.“Perhaps more than any other it illustrates both the meeting and the mismeeting of religion and psychology.” — 1992, Maurice Friedman, Religion and Psychology: A Dialogical Approach, page 45:To fail to properly satisfy or comply with.e.g.“In such pathological relatedness, the child's archaic security needs (which are developmentally immature and of a grandiose and idealizing nature) either go unmet or are mismet.” — 1994, John Fiscalini, “Narcissism and coparticipant inquiry: Explorations in contemporary interpersonal psychoanalysis”, in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, volume 30, number 4:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).