Synonyms:
misunderstood
Meaning: wrongly understood; "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question"
Usage examples
"Your eminence has misunderstood me.
"This is done in plain words--too plain to be misunderstood.
It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
The "lingering" mentioned by de Lenz is tempo rubato, so fatally misunderstood by most Chopin players.
"I was going to say, impassioned: but perhaps you would have misunderstood the word, and been displeased.
"I fancy the servants must have misunderstood my letter, and not have expected us until to-morrow night."
He has misunderstood me and has ill-used me. But I am ready to forgive that, if he will allow me to do so.
He felt the sympathy which quivered in her voice, and it nearly unmanned him; but he misunderstood her meaning.
But he generalized with complete recklessness from the slenderest data; and even these data he often completely misunderstood or misinterpreted.
I would not even suggest a mistranslation; but the idea intended by the word has been so misunderstood and therefore mistaught, that it requires some consideration of the word itself to get at a right recognition of the moral fact it represents.