misstep
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Is misstep a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of misstep?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) An error or mistake.Examples: "His comment was a misstep that could cost him dearly."; "Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight."Synonyms: error, faux pas, mistakefiguratively
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To step badly or incorrectly.Examples: "My dance partner misstepped and landed on my toe."; "Eckhart also speaks of this happening to a man who has misstepped (vertreten, as I recall); God, then, corrects the mis-swing of the man and brings him back to the Tao or Logos."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To make an error or mistake.Examples: "I don't want to misstep by offending them."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary