Home › Words › M › missignifymissignifymissignify means to signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.EtymologyFrom mis- + signify.verbTo signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.e.g.“It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive.” — 1996, David Cressy, “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 35, number 4, page 442:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).