Misapprehension

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misapprehension \Mis*ap`pre*hen"sion\, n.
     A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning
     of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  misapprehension
       n : an understanding of something that is not correct; "he
           wasn't going to admit his mistake"; "make no mistake
           about his intentions"; "there must be some
           misunderstanding--I don't have a sister" [syn: {mistake},
            {misunderstanding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "misapprehension":
     abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting,
     corrigendum, distortion, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, fault,
     faute, garbling, gloss, human error, malentendu, malobservation,
     misapplication, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation,
     misconception, misconstruction, miscount, misdeal, misexplanation,
     misexplication, misexposition, misidentification, misintelligence,
     misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation,
     misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, mistake,
     mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words,
     perversion, squeezing, torturing, twisting, typo,
     typographical error, wrenching