Misinterpretation

3 definitions found

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

  Misinterpretation \Mis`in*ter"pre*ta"tion\, n.
     The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken
     interpretation.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  misinterpretation
       n : putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation
           of the question caused his error"; "there was no
           mistaking her meaning" [syn: {misunderstanding}, {mistaking}]

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

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "misinterpretation":
     aberrancy, aberration, corruption, defectiveness, delusion,
     deviancy, distortion, errancy, erroneousness, error,
     error in judgment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring,
     falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia,
     heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, injudiciousness, misapplication,
     misappreciation, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconjecture,
     misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation,
     misevaluation, misfeasance, misjudgment, misreading,
     misrepresentation, misuse, misvaluation, peccancy, perversion,
     poor judgment, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness,
     skewed judgment, slanting, straining, torturing, unorthodoxy,
     untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrong construction,
     wrong impression, wrongness