misread
ˌmis-ˈred 
; misreading
ˌmis-ˈrē-diŋ
; misreading
ˌmis-ˈrē-diŋ
1
: to read incorrectly
2
: to misinterpret in or as if in reading
… totally misread the lesson of history …—
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I guess I misread the instructions.
They have misread the lessons of the past.
Politicians may have misread the mood of the public.
I badly misread the situation.
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Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2025
Interviewees expressed deep concern about how these tools might misread an employee’s mood, tone or verbal queues due to ethnic, gender and other kinds of bias that AI systems carry.
—Fares Ahmad, The Conversation, 20 Nov. 2025
Other experts are worried that doctors and patients will misread the FDA’s action as a green light to use hormones in all women.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
Bigelow’s sympathetic eye for her functionaries risks the film being misread as an argument for more robust military funding.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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misread
verb
mis·read
(ˈ)mis-ˈrēd
1
: to read incorrectly
2
: to misinterpret in or as if in reading
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