Home › Words › M › mistendmistendmistend means to tend poorly.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, mistend ranks #32,705 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom mis- + tend.verbTo tend poorlye.g.“All over asia, one sees disease and bodily injury so untended, or what is worse, mistended, that the resultant condition is as dreadfu as it is intolerable.·” — 1907, Arthur Judson Brown, The Foreign Missionary: An Incarnation of a World Movement, page 365:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).