to misjudge

Examples

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• Early in the story, Stoddard misjudges the nature of the threat.

  Academic text (1999)

• If you misjudge a person's character, you might end up with the wrong impression of them.

• I think you misjudge yourself.

  Will Penny (1967)

• You misjudge the girl, just as you did her mother.

  The Man from Snowy River (1982)

• We all make mistakes sometimes, and we misjudge situations sometimes.

  Blog text (1)

• So my question is, did the NSA misjudge the value of its own program?

  Stanford

• And if people misjudge you, that's on them.

• I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy.

  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

• And this leads people who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.

  Moneyball (2011)

• Government institutions often misjudge the critical state of technological diffusion on tribal lands, citing a lack of reliable data.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

M

to misread

vsto misjudge

56 3.4

To understand words or actions in the wrong way

refers to forming a wrong overall conclusion, not only reading errors

M

to misunderstand

vsto misjudge

53 1.8

To think something is true when it is not

refers to arriving at a wrong opinion or conclusion rather than mere confusion

M

to mistake

vsto misjudge

37 1.0

To be wrong in what you think or do

specifically means forming an incorrect opinion or conclusion rather than any error

M

to miscalculate

vsto misjudge

23 4.5

To get an amount or time wrong

is about general opinion errors rather than calculation mistakes

M

to misinterpret

vsto misjudge

23 4.2

To understand something in the wrong way

is about judging overall character or situation, not only meaning

M

to misconstrue

vsto misjudge

22 7.7

To understand what someone says or does in the wrong way

is focused on forming a broad wrong opinion rather than only meaning

M

to misperceive

vsto misjudge

1 7.7

To understand something in the wrong way

is about making a broader mistaken judgment from facts or people

M

to misconceive

vsto misjudge

1 7.5

To understand something in the wrong way

is about making a wrong final judgment rather than holding a wrong idea

M

to misapprehend

vsto misjudge

1 8.2

To understand something wrongly

focuses on concluding wrongly about people or things rather than just confusion

M

to misgauge

vsto misjudge

1 8.1

Judge or estimate something wrongly

forms a wrong opinion or conclusion rather than a measurement error

M

to misestimate

vsto misjudge

1 6.5

Give a wrong idea of how big, how long, or how much something is

involves a general wrong opinion rather than only numeric estimates

Antonyms

J

to judge

914 2.5

To form an opinion about someone or something

How Accurate

to judge

914 2.5

to evaluate

335 3.2

to misjudge

6 3.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology