Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Misunderstanding
adj
Misattributed: appearing or (especially) knowingly published under the name of a different person from the true author.
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An incorrect name for something, especially in taxonomic classification.
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An error, especially one in a printed work.
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(education) The distinction drawn by some language teachers between an "error" (a mistaken belief that a given usage or construction is correct; or, an incorrect use resulting from such a belief) and "a mistake" (an accidental use of a usage or construction despite knowing that it is incorrect).
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(countable) A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false.
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(UK) Misconstruction of Lloyd's.
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To adapt badly; to exhibit maladaptation.
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(countable) An instance of this; malaprop.
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Synonym of misconstruction
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An incorrect or unwise investment.
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mismanagement
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An erroneous observation.
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To be in a bad or wrong posture.
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A defect in pronouncing the letter M, or excessive use of it.
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Alternative form of misassociation [A false, misleading, or incorrect association.]
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(rare) Inaccurate history.
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Alternative spelling of mistyping [(countable) A mistyped word.]
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Incorrect accentuation.
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Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
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One who misaligns something.
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An erroneous statement or allegation.
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Incorrect allotment.
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A bad or wrong allowance; something allotted in error.
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(rare) Misapplication; the act of misapplying something.
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A bad or inaccurate appraisal.
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Incorrect ascription, or a particular incorrect ascription; for example, the ascription of a quality to someone or something which does not possess it, or the ascription of a quotation to someone who did not originate it.
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A false, misleading, or incorrect association.
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An incorrect assumption.
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The act of misbestowing.
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An incorrect or mistaken calculation.
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An incorrect calibration.
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An erroneous caption.
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Alternative spelling of mischaracterize [To characterize falsely or mistakenly]
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The act of characterizing something in an inaccurate or misleading way
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The act or process of misclassifying.
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(surveying) The discrepancy between the starting point the endpoint of the shape reconstructed from the measured dimensions and bearings of a boundary.
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Alternative form of miscognize [(obsolete) To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.]
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A comment that is untrue.
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To err when attempting to adapt to a condition.
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An incorrect understanding of something.
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a mistaken belief, a wrong idea
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An erroneous inference or conclusion.
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An incorrect or inappropriate configuration.
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To form a misconformation
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A bad or wrong conjunction.
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A misconnection.
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A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
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A misconstrual or misinterpretation.
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An instance of something being misconstrued; a misconstrual.
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Failure to make a proper contact.
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An erroneous correction; a mistake in correcting a previous mistake.
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An incorrect counting.
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To declare wrongly; to declare erroneously.
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A faulty defense that allows one's opponent to take advantage
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an incorrect delivery, e.g. to the wrong person
adj
(law) In United States trademark law, tending to mislead consumers about the qualities of the product represented by the mark.
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An instance of reaching an unintended phone number due to an error in dialing or in using a keypad.
adj
Dubbed incorrectly.
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A bad or wrong endowment.
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To engineer badly or wrongly.
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inaccurate estimation
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Bad or wrong expenditure.
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Wrong explication.
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An undesirable or incorrect feature.
adj
Improperly healed.
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(rare) Synonym of mishyphenate
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The incorrect placement of a hyphen.
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An erroneous implication.
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Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
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A wrong or misleading imputation.
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(informal) Misinformation.
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An improper installation or the act of misinstalling.
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An instance of misinterpreting.
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An incorrect or unwise investment.
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An invalid invocation.
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(law) An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure in court.
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(law) A wrong citation.
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An incorrect labelling.
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An attempt to launch something which results in it not following the intended trajectory.
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An instance when an afterburner does not light the injected fuel properly.
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Badly or incorrectly lodged; kept in an unsuitable place.
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To match unsuitably; to fail to match
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Incorrect or inaccurate measurement.
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(neologism, informal linguistics) The unintended combination of semantic and grammatical negation such that the resulting statement actually means the opposite of what is wanted.
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A term that is misleading, even if it may not be incorrect.
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The process or result of putting things in the wrong order.
adj
Badly or wrongly parked.
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(biology) The formation of an incorrect pattern
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A planting that has failed.
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An inaccurate portrayal.
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(uncountable) Misinterpretation or misunderstanding; (countable) an instance of this; a mistake.
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Misconstruction of misprision [(uncountable) Criminal neglect or wrongful execution of duty, especially by a public official; (countable) a specific instance of this.]
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The act mispromoting; the advertisement of something as having properties it does not have.
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Pronounced incorrectly.
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Synonym of mispronunciation
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(uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
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(countable, uncountable) Evidence or convincing argument that misleads one to the wrong conclusion.
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An erroneous purchase; the buying of incorrect goods or services.
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To incorrectly recite a quote.
adj
rated incorrectly.
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an incorrect reading
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Alternative form of misrecognize [(psychology, computing) To recognize in error]
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To present an inaccurate description of; to give an inaccurate impression of.
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The act or result of misreflecting; a bad or wrong reflection.
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(obsolete) Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
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An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
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An incorrect remembrance; something remembered wrongly.
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In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
adj
Relating to misrepresentation.
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A false rhyme.
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An incorrect routing.
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(Early Modern) Obsolete form of misinterpretation. [An instance of misinterpreting.]
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An incorrect signing.
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(obsolete) Wrong speech.
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(countable) A misspelt word.
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One who misstates something.
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Falsely believing that someone is someone else.
adj
Done at the wrong time.
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(obsolete) misstep; misbehaviour
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(nonstandard) An inaccurate underestimation, or an act of misunderestimating.
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(rare) A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.
v
To consider mistakenly.
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A wrong idea about something, a misconception.

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