misinterpretation
Roget category 523
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.8. Nature of ideas communicated
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Misinterpretation
noun
misinterpretation,
misapprehension,
misunderstanding,
misacceptation†,
misconstruction,
misapplication —
catachresis† —
eisegesis† —
cross-reading,
cross-purposes —
mistake
etc.
495.
misrepresentation,
perversion,
exaggeration
etc.
549 —
false coloring,
false construction —
abuse of terms —
parody,
travesty —
falsification
etc.
(lying)
544.
verb
misinterpret,
misapprehend,
misunderstand,
misconceive,
misspell,
mistranslate,
misconstrue,
misapply —
mistake
etc.
495.
misrepresent,
pervert —
explain wrongly,
misstate —
garble
etc.
(falsify)
544 —
distort,
detort† —
travesty,
play upon words —
stretch the sense,
strain the sense,
stretch the meaning,
strain the meaning,
wrest the sense,
wrest the meaning —
explain away —
put a bad construction on,
put a false construction on —
give a false coloring.
be at cross purposes,
play at cross purposes.
adjective
misinterpreted
etc.
v. —
untranslated,
untranslatable.
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