to misapprehend

Examples

• All

• For as much as he misapprehends the players' roles in the U.S. legal system, Moussaoui probably has correctly predicted that his trial wouldn't be a fair fight.

  Academic text (2002)

• Any reader who thinks that the ending of Hamlet is genuinely funny or that the wolf really should get to eat the three little pigs is a reader who has not only misapprehended the aesthetic shape of both stories but also their different ethical presuppositions as well.

  Academic text (1998)

• Now he said, "You misapprehend, General, not that I can blame you for it."

  Fiction book (1992)

• The opening of the play "King Richard the Third" seems to me often entirely misapprehended.

  Academic text (2012)

• Do not misapprehend.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Misapprehending the world, do we seize a broken ladder ascending from hell to a sanctuary overhead?

  Fiction book (1991)

• Antebellum case law had so misapprehended the Eighth Amendment's meaning that the adopters of the Fourteenth Amendment may well have thought the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States or due process of law included protection from vicious methods of punishment.

  Academic text (2004)

• Now let us render homage to Magister Bernard de Trevisane misapprehending gold for mercury coagulated by the resolve and inimitable strength of sulfur.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She contends that Chambri women dominate Chambri men by reason of their economic activity (women controlled the fishing and constructed an important item of trade) and that Chambri men misapprehend the nature of their subservience to their women.

  Academic text (1991)

• She misapprehended his intentions and thought he was angry with her.

Synonyms

M

to misread

vsto misapprehend

56 3.4

To understand words or actions in the wrong way

applies to wrong understanding more broadly, not only reading situations

M

to misunderstand

vsto misapprehend

53 1.8

To think something is true when it is not

is the same general failure to understand rather than a narrow act

M

to misinterpret

vsto misapprehend

23 4.2

To understand something in the wrong way

is the same wrong understanding but not only about explaining others

M

to misconstrue

vsto misapprehend

22 7.7

To understand what someone says or does in the wrong way

covers wrong understanding generally, not only wrong perceived intention

M

to misjudge

vsto misapprehend

6 3.9

To form a wrong idea about someone or something

focuses on wrong interpretation rather than making a judgmental conclusion

M

to misconceive

vsto misapprehend

1 7.5

To understand something in the wrong way

is the broader idea of incorrect understanding rather than a specific cause

M

to misperceive

vsto misapprehend

1 7.7

To understand something in the wrong way

covers incorrect understanding from any source, not only sensory errors

M

to misprise

vsto misapprehend

• Archaic

9.9

To understand something in the wrong way

is identical in meaning but differs only in form or usage

Antonyms

U

to understand

∞ 1.0

To know the meaning of something

C

to comprehend

137 2.7

To understand the meaning of something

How Accurate

to understand

∞ 1.0

to misapprehend

1 8.2

to misinterpret

23 4.2

to misread

56 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology