I'm a lot of things, but at the end of the day, I'm an English major. I love words. I'm good at words, I'm good with words. So, I looked it up on dictionary.com. The word origin for the prefix "mis-" is: a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,” “wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating: mistrial; misprint; mistrust. Then I looked it up on Cambridge English Dictionary. It said: added to the beginning of a verb or word formed from a verb , to show that the action referred to by the verb has been done wrongly or badly : I never said that! You must have misheard me. His misbehaviour eventually led to him being expelled from school . ...