🔄 Synonyms of "Misinterpret"
6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| misconstrueverb | (transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand. |
| misunderstandverb | (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly. |
| misconceiveverb | To misunderstand. |
| misreadverb | To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of. |
| misapprehendverb | (transitive) To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand. |
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Misinterpret"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| misapprehendverb | (transitive) To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand. |
| misconstrueverb | (transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand. |
| misreadverb | To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of. |
| misconceiveverb | To misunderstand. |
| misunderstandverb | (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly. |
| distortverb | (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert. |
| interpretverb | To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc. |
| misconstructnoun | To construe or interpret erroneously. |
| mishearnoun | (ambitransitive) To hear wrongly. |
| misgraspverb | To fail to correctly understand; misunderstand. |
| misperceiveverb | To perceive erroneously. |
| misfigureverb | To misrepresent or disguise. |
| misconsiderverb | To consider wrongly; to misjudge. |
| mismeanverb | (transitive) To mean or intend wrongly; mistake the meaning of; misinterpret. |
| misconsterverb | Obsolete form of misconstrue. [(transitive) To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.] |
| misjudgeverb | To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess. |
| mistakenoun | An error. |
| mislistenverb | To misunderstand or misinterpret something to which one listens, especially as a result of poor attention. |
| miskennoun | (transitive, UK dialectal) To misunderstand; mistake; have the wrong idea of. |
| misdecipherverb | To decipher incorrectly. |
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