Thesaurus results for MISCONCEIVE

misconceive

verb

ˌmis-kən-ˈsēv

Definition of misconceive

as in to misunderstand

to make an incorrect judgment regarding misconceived the scope of the nation's financial crisis

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The Libra Sun opposes Neptune across your personal and shared resource zones, making promises, expenses, or contributions easy to misunderstand.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
Friedlich hangs a lot of The Holes’s emotional bent on the dynamic between Joey and Carson, as two lonely townies who have spent a lot of their lives misunderstanding each other.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of misunderstand

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Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism.

— Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
The second mistake is underestimating the width of the curtain panels.

— Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of underestimate

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Don’t mistake this as an argument against technical training.

— David Etue, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Bianco, who was then running for governor as a Republican, seized the ballots in February, despite the insistence by local elections officials that the citizens group misunderstood the process and was mistaken.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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