Word Meanings - MISUNDERSTAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
Related words: (words related to MISUNDERSTAND)
- SENSE
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, - 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. - MISTAKEN
1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion. - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - MISTAKER
One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall. - MISTAKE
1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought - 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. - MISCOMPREHEND
To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand. - WRONGHEAD
A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. - SENSEFUL
Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris. - WRONG-TIMED
Done at an improper time; ill-timed. - MISCONCEIVE
To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker. Syn. -- To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake. - SENSELESS
Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. - MISCONCEIVER
One who misconceives. - 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. - INSENSE
To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell. - NONSENSE
1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, - COMMON SENSE
See SENSE - UNSENSED
Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. Puller. - AWRONG
Wrongly. Ford. - SELF-WRONG
Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.