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# misstep

«misstep» in Mova's school dictionary: **A wrong step when walking, which can make you trip or fall** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a misstep, missteps)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wrong step when walking, which can make you trip or fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#m1)

2) A mistake in what you do or decide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and sport: one misstep on the ice and you fall. In stories and news: a leader's misstep is a bad decision. Phrases: one misstep, a costly misstep.

### examples

- One misstep on the icy path and he slipped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x1)
- Choosing that shortcut was a misstep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x2)
- The dancer made a small misstep but kept going. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x3)
- The team's misstep cost them the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x4)
- On a cliff path, a misstep can be dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x5)
- We learned from our missteps and did better next time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x6)
- A pumpkin is an exceedingly awkward thing to carry, and the Irishman had not gone far before he made a misstep, and stumbled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/#x7)

### note

Spelling: double s (mis + step). Countable. Similar: slip, mistake, error, blunder.

### In the corpora

- ["A misstep" means a mistake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misstep» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misstep/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.