verb
definition
To calculate incorrectly.
example
They miscalculated by assuming the dimensions were in imperial, not metric.
definition
To make a gross error in judgement.
Examples of miscalculated in a Sentence
We had miscalculated the time of day.
Northumberland had miscalculated the temper of the nation, and failed to kidnap Mary.
He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.
In his adoption of a purely defensive policy at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, he miscalculated the temper of the Athenians, whose morale would have been better sustained by a greater show of activity.
But Antiochus had miscalculated, and by his extreme measures unwittingly saved Judaism from its internal foes.
Churchill had completely miscalculated, but so had Stalin, Hitler and Roosevelt.
You have just miscalculated how quickly people would accept this information and how supportive they would be while learning to accept this "change."
I badly miscalculated the potential yield from my first two civilization choices, leaving me behind the pack from the beginning.
Either I seriously miscalculated something wrong the first time or I'm missing a component on my shopping lists this time.
One has already miscalculated the leap and gone in up to her bottom, but the locks are my real worry.
But the quickness of the wolf's lope and the borzoi's slower pace made it plain that Karay had miscalculated.
But he miscalculated both the endurance of Cadogan's men (amongst whom the Prussians were conspicuous for their tenacity) and the rapidity with which in Marlborough's and Eugene's hands the wearied troops of the Allies could be made to move.
In most cases he is successful, but should his intended victim escape, as at times happens, from his having miscalculated the distance, he may make a second or even a third bound, which, however, usually prove fruitless, or he returns disconcerted to his hiding-place, there to wait for another opportunity."