Definition of misconceive
misconceived;
misconceiving
transitive + intransitive
1
T
: to form a wrong idea of (something) : misunderstand
- To think about poverty as mainly an underclass or minority issue is not only to misconceive it, but also to wall it off and make it alien.
- —Mark Jonathan Harris
- … I thought I had misconceived their true characters …
- —Herman Melville
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I
dated
: to hold a wrong idea or conception
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