misconstrual
- noun
- /ˌmɪskənˈstrɔːl/
:
mala interpretación
- He realized that his misconstrual of the situation had caused unnecessary conflict.
And what this leads to is a misconstrual of what the world is really like.
- And what this leads to is a misconstrual of what the world is really like.
Examples
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And what this leads to is a misconstrual of what the world is really like.
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The memo contends that the activity was "completely innocent" but "subject to misconstrual."
Blog text (17) -
That understanding, while others flounder in vacuous misconstruals, is its own reward.
Blog text (12) -
That is just Casey Luskin's (deliberate?) misconstrual of the evidence.
Blog text (26) -
Internal and external worlds remain stubbornly incongruent, and memory is inseparable from misconstrual and impercipience.
Academic text (2017) -
Put more precisely, this misconstrual shows that the judgments of similarity and difference between a "principle" and a "principle put into effect" were very fine and contingent ones.
Academic text (2016) -
To interpret what he is saying in terms of a separation of and interaction between "the 'squishy' social issues from the 'guns-and-butter' issues" seems to me a profound if not perverse misreading and misconstrual.
Blog text (2) -
The student's misconstrual of the teacher's instructions led to confusion during the project.
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Her misconstrual of the author's message changed the way she understood the story.
Synonyms
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1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
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4.2
An idea that is not true because people understand something wrongly
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6.8
A wrong idea about something
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6.0
A wrong understanding of something that leads to wrong conclusions
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4.0
A wrong idea about what someone wrote or said
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7.5
A wrong idea about what something means
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7.5
A wrong idea someone has about something
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8.3
A wrong idea about what someone said or meant
A failure to understand something correctly
A wrong understanding of what someone wrote or said
A wrong idea about something because a person did not understand it
A way of understanding the meaning of something
Antonyms
How Wrong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Misconstrual is made from mis- meaning 'wrong' and the same root as construct, which means 'to build'. So a misconstrual is like a 'wrong building' of meaning, a mistaken understanding.