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misinterpretation

Roget category 523

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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#523. Misinterpretation

noun

misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplicationcatachresiseisegesiscross-reading, cross-purposesmistake etc. 495.
misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration etc. 549false coloring, false constructionabuse of termsparody, travestyfalsification etc. (lying) 544.

verb

misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapplymistake etc. 495.
misrepresent, pervert explain wrongly, misstategarble etc. (falsify) 544distort, detorttravesty, play upon wordsstretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaningexplain awayput a bad construction on, put a false construction ongive a false coloring.
be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.

adjective

misinterpreted etc. v. — untranslated, untranslatable.

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