misjudgment

Roget category 481

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#481. Misjudgment

noun

misjudgment, obliquity of judgment — miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception etc. (error) 495 — hasty conclusion.
[causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication^†, prejudice — foregone conclusion — prenotion^†, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension^†, presumption, assumption, presentiment — fixed idea, preconceived idea — id_ee fixe — mentis gratissimus error [Lat.] — fool's paradise.
[causes of misjudgment. 2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship, clannishness, prestige.
[causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist — hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.
[causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions — narrow mind — bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606 — odium theologicum [Lat.] — pedantry — hypercriticism.
doctrinaire etc. (positive) 474.
[causes of misjudgment. 5] overestimation etc. 482 — underestimation etc. 483.
[causes of misjudgment. 6] ignorance etc. 491.
erroneous assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions (error) 495.

verb

misjudge, misestimate, misthink^†, misconjecture^†, misconceive etc. (error) 495 — fly in the face of facts — miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute.
overestimate etc. 482 — underestimate etc. 483.
prejudge, forejudge — presuppose, presume, prejudicate^† — dogmatize — have a bias etc. n. — have only one idea — jurare in verba magistri [Lat.], run away with the notion — jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions — look only at one side of the shield — view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles — not see beyond one's nose — dare pondus fumo [Lat.] — get the wrong sow by the ear etc. (blunder) 699.
give a bias, give a twist — bias, warp, twist — prejudice, prepossess.

adjective

misjudging etc. v. — ill-judging, wrong-headed — prejudiced etc. v. — jaundiced — shortsighted, purblind — partial, one-sided, superficial.
narrow-minded, narrow-souled^† — mean-spirited — confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete [Fr.], positive, dogmatic, conceited — opinative, opiniative^† — opinioned, opinionate, opinionative, opinionated — self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opini=atre — bigoted etc. (obstinate) 606 — crotchety, fussy, impracticable — unreasonable, stupid etc. 499 — credulous etc. 486 — warped.
misjudged etc. v..

adverb

ex parte [Lat.].

phrase

nothing like leather — the wish the father to the thought — wishful thinking — unshakable conviction — my mind is made up - don't bother me with the my mind is made up - don't bother me with the facts.
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