misidentified
Speech parts
1. misidentified - Adjective
2. misidentified - Verb
Meaning
misidentified
simple past and past participle of misidentify
misidentified (comparative more misidentified, superlative most misidentified)
identified incorrectly
Synonyms
Examples
I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.
A mysterious bird, formerly misidentified as slaty brush finch and only described in 2007.
Carlo is a former advocacy officer who understands how civilian civil liberties are violated with this technology, in addition to noticing the growing number of citizens being misidentified.
At different times in history, Mary Magdalene has been confused or misidentified with almost every woman in the four Gospels, except the mother of Jesus.
Due to quarantine restrictions, plant cuttings were often smuggled into South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s and many times were misidentified as to what grape variety it really was.
It took the keen eye of Susan Evans, a professor of vertebrate morphology and paleontology at University College London, to recognize this particular "lizard" was actually a misidentified albie.