From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmis-mis- /mɪs/ prefix 1 BADbad or badly misfortune (=bad luck) He’s been misbehaving.2 WRONG/INCORRECTwrong or wrongly a miscalculation I misunderstood you.3 OPPOSITE/REVERSENOT HAVEused to refer to an opposite or the lack of something What caused this anger and mistrust (=lack of trust)?
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mis-• I mistrust him.Origin mis- Partly from Old English mis-, partly from Old French mes- 