misconceive
verb/ˌmɪskənˈsiːv/US
Etymology
From Middle English misconceiven, equivalent to mis- + conceive.
- inherited from misconceiven
Definitions
To misunderstand.
- 1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer Nay, misconceive me not, madam, when I say I have had a gen'rous and a faithful passion, which you had never favoured, but through revenge and policy.
To judge or plan badly, typically on the basis of faulty misunderstanding.
- HS2 has never had that. It was missold, misnamed and misconceived. It was promoted as a piece of engineering, rather than as a vital part of the railway.
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Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misconceive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA