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Word Meanings - MISCONSTRUCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Related words: (words related to MISCONSTRUCTION)

  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • WRONG
    imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
  • ERRONEOUS
    1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading;
  • WRONGLESS
    Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
  • WRONGDOING
    Evil or wicked behavior or action.
  • WRONGFUL
    Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
  • WRONGHEAD
    A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
  • CONSTRUCTION
    The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke. 4. The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a
  • CONSTRUCTIONIST
    One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.
  • CONSTRUCTIONAL
    Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
  • WRONG-TIMED
    Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
  • WRONGNESS
    The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
  • WRONGDOER
    One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
  • WRONGLY
    In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
  • WRONGHEADED
    Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
  • WRONGER
    One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
  • INTERPRETATION
    An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. (more info) 1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream,
  • MISCONSTRUCTION
    Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.
  • RECONSTRUCTION
    The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reëstablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. (more info) 1. The act
  • AWRONG
    Wrongly. Ford.
  • SELF-WRONG
    Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.
  • MISINTERPRETATION
    The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

 

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