miscalculated

verb

past tense of miscalculate
as in misunderstood
to make an incorrect judgment regarding they miscalculated how difficult the mountainous trek would be

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscalculated
  1. misunderstood
  2. underestimated
  3. misjudged
  4. mistook
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  • Either dark energy is a real phenomenon, causing the universe to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate, or there is no dark energy at all, and scientists have somehow misunderstood the laws of gravity at cosmic scales.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of misunderstood
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  • From my experience working with founders, several risks are consistently underestimated.
    — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The imbalance between students and the companies competing for their attention should not be underestimated.
    — Paul Jester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of underestimated
Verb
  • And Peter is massively misjudged a lot of the time, and that’s also really interesting.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, Scheffler misjudged his approach and scrambled to save par.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
Definition of misjudged
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  • Foster’s songs became ubiquitous—people sometimes mistook them for folk songs even during his lifetime—and were performed everywhere from back porches to opera houses, in every genre imaginable.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
  • While walking alongside his teammates, Kolek, 25, was briefly stopped by police, who seemingly mistook him for a fan.
    — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
Definition of mistook
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