Misunderstand

ahd-5
  • transitive verb. To understand incorrectly; misinterpret.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To understand amiss; attach a false meaning to; take in a wrong sense; misconceive; interpret or explain to one's self erroneously.
  • To fail to understand (a person with reference to his words or actions): as, I misunderstood you.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To understand incorrectly, while thinking to have understood correctly.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. interpret in the wrong way
    • Word Usage
    "What many investors misunderstand is that, when it comes to risk, more is less."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    construe  interpret  see  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Grande  Hand  Land  Marchand  Rand  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    contort  distort  garble  get one wrong  get wrong  
    variant
    misunderstood  
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