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Misunderstanding   /mˌɪsəndərstˈændɪŋ/   Listen
Misunderstanding

noun
1.
Putting the wrong interpretation on.  Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking.  "There was no mistaking her meaning"
2.
An understanding of something that is not correct.  Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake.  "Make no mistake about his intentions" , "There must be some misunderstanding--I don't have a sister"



Misunderstand

verb
(past & past part. misunderstood; pres. part. misunderstanding)
1.
Interpret in the wrong way.  Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret.  "She misconstrued my remarks"






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"Misunderstanding" Quotes from Famous Books



... that of his father's confidential lawyers, and below, to the left, lest there be no possibility of misunderstanding, were his name and address in full: "Mr. Lafayette ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet

... only fully felt when I got off the car and found my legs cramped—to come to the rescue as interpreter. The Spanish Friar was accustomed to these little embarrassments, and he had a manner of meeting them with a smile. The misunderstanding and the embarrassment seemed to thaw the formality of the reception. The women looked relieved. They were obviously not expected to say anything, and they had no fear now that they would be put to the ordeal of meeting a possibly superior person, one who ...
— Waysiders • Seumas O'Kelly

... you!" he cried presently, as Coggs, exasperated by all his wrongs, was rushing at him with an evidently hostile intent. "There, don't be annoyed, my good boy," he pleaded, catching up a chair as a bulwark. "It was a misunderstanding. I wish you no harm. There, my dear young ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

... in the town, I said," observed the little man. "Let us have no misunderstanding, nor yet obligation; that's my motto. Now, what can I do for ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... of four-and-twenty hours obtained pretty ample and accurate details of the cause of contention between Coningsby and her husband. She could inform Mr. Rigby not only that Lord Monmouth was highly incensed against his grandson, but that the cause of their misunderstanding arose about a seat in the House of Commons, and that seat too the one which Mr. Rigby had long appropriated to himself, and over whose registration he had watched ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli


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