prefix occurring in a few words adopted from French meaning 'badly', 'wrongly', 'amiss', 'ill-', or having a negative force (misadventure; mischief).
[ OF mes- ult. f. L minus (see MINUS): assim. to MIS-(1) ]
prefix occurring in a few words adopted from French meaning 'badly', 'wrongly', 'amiss', 'ill-', or having a negative force (misadventure; mischief).
[ OF mes- ult. f. L minus (see MINUS): assim. to MIS-(1) ]
Concise Oxford English dictionary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2012