Home › Words › M › misreceivemisreceivemisreceive means to receive illegitimately or in error.EtymologyFrom mis- + receive.verbTo receive illegitimately or in error.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.misreceipt 85% match — An act of receiving something illegitimately or in error. vs misreceive →misget 69% match — To get wrongly or unlawfully; to procure by unlawful means. vs misreceive →misdeliver 65% match — To deliver incorrectly. vs misreceive →missend 64% match — To send incorrectly or to the wrong destination. vs misreceive →misprovide 62% match — To provide badly or wrongly. vs misreceive →missign 62% match — To sign improperly or incorrectly. vs misreceive →misperceive 62% match — To perceive erroneously. vs misreceive →miscollect 62% match — To make errors in the process of collecting. vs misreceive →