misconstrue
verb/mɪskənˈstɹuː/UK
Etymology
From Middle English misconstruen, equivalent to mis- + construe.
- inherited from misconstruen
Definitions
To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly
To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
- His words were misconstrued as an insult.
- It’s easy to misconstrue her silence as agreement.
- misconstrue the meaning
The neighborhood
- antonymcomprehend
- antonymconstrue
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misconstrue. 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