misgauge

verb

mis·​gauge ˌmis-ˈgāj 

variants or less commonly misgage

misgauged also misgaged; misgauging also misgaging

transitive verb

: to gauge wrongly : misjudge

In a report submitted last week, the NASA board concluded that mission engineers had most likely misgauged the heating of the back end of the spacecraft by exhaust gases from the internally mounted rocket.

—Richard A. Kerr

He didn't share his wife's interest in the performing arts, and therefore had misgauged the intensity of her ambition.

—Kendra Bean

Synonyms

• miscalculate
• misconceive
• misdeem
• misestimate
• misjudge
• mismeasure
• mistake

Examples of misgauge in a Sentence

the candidate fatally misgauged voters' concerns, and his negative ads only served to alienate many would-be supporters

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above