Home › Words › M › missightmissightmissight means sight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.EtymologyFrom mis- + sight.nounSight proved to be wrong; an instance of seeing something that turned out to be something else or nothing at all.e.g.“Perhaps this — whatever it was — was just a missight, so to speak, because her eyes weren't working properly.” — 2009, Pamela Freeman, Full Circle:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.missment 62% match — A mistake; an error. vs missight →misseek 59% match — To seek for wrongly. vs missight →misinspection 58% match — An inspection that fails to identify something important; the act of misinspecting. vs missight →sighting 56% match — The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for. vs missight →misprediction 55% match — An instance of mispredicting; an incorrect prediction. vs missight →misknowledge 55% match — Misapprehension; imperfect or incorrect knowledge; misunderstanding. vs missight →unsight 55% match — Absence of sight; lack of vision vs missight →misidentification 55% match — An instance of misidentifying; an erroneous identification. vs missight →