MISCOMPREHENSION Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

miscomprehension

noun

Definition of miscomprehension

as in misconception

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Noun

They were accompanied by the museum’s architect Ma Yansong, who, in his remarks on stage, corrected a popular misconception that the building is made to resemble a spaceship.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026
Many, maybe even most, of these negative views of athletics held by my colleague and others are based on misconceptions.

— Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of misconception

Noun

Arendt herself complicated matters by calling it journalism instead of philosophy, which added to the misunderstandings.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
Ann Marie Lipinski, an august former Tribune editor, once told me that perhaps the purest encapsulation of coastal cities’ misunderstanding of Chicago was in how their media covered Dennis Rodman’s role in the Bulls’ second three-peat.

— Will Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of misunderstanding

Noun

Handling emotions through asynchronous modalities just isn’t effective and has many potential downsides due to misinterpretation.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Sánchez, who faces an election next year, has said a misinterpretation of a Supreme Court ruling and disinformation on social media encouraged people to rush the border.

— Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of misinterpretation

Noun

In The Mayor of Casterbridge, his 1886 novel about a man who attempts to outflank the great error of his past, the English writer Thomas Hardy offers an interpersonal version of the geopolitical misconstructions Westad articulates.

— Elizabeth D. Samet, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.

— Joshua Stein, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025

Definition of misconstruction

Noun

But this response is a fundamental misreading of the genre and of its audience.

— Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
That decline was built entirely on a misreading of the product, and the shareholders who sold into it handed their shares to buyers who understood the company better.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of misreading

Noun

The reference to the co-defendant's YOS sentence was mistakenly included in some communication out of our office based on a previous misstatement and was not part of the Governor's decision process.

— Kelly Werthmann, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Lee Watson, in the email, said Burns never represented the board in the lawsuit and telling the court otherwise is a misstatement.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 May 2026

Definition of misstatement

Noun

There, the discovery of a spacecraft and additional extraterrestrials transforms their chase into a simple struggle for survival, as what began as a series of understandable misjudgments spirals into a tragedy of cosmic scale.

— Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
When someone is experiencing imposter syndrome, success is attributed to luck, excessive effort, charm or other people's misjudgment.

— Sandro da Silva, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of misjudgment

Noun

But that miscalculation was, itself, premised on the unexamined assumption that a K-12 public education should be essentially vocational and therefore—almost by definition—aligned with corporate interests.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
Open communication strengthens deterrence, prevents adversary miscalculation, and normalizes space operations alongside the other services.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of miscalculation

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