Thesaurus results for MISJUDGE

misjudge

verb

ˌmis-ˈjəj

Definition of misjudge

as in to misunderstand

to make an incorrect judgment regarding the gymnast misjudged her landing and sprained her ankle

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Recent Examples of misjudge Some misjudge its power and are swept away, their final moments lost in the churning abyss. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Others have paid a steep price after misjudging how stakeholders would respond. — Van Carlson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Jorrel Hato misjudged the flight of the delivery, allowing Belloumi to emphatically half-volley a shot into the bottom corner. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 The consequences of misjudging the route to that point are already visible. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for misjudge

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My next question was going to be what do people who haven’t been on a college campus in a while tend to misunderstand about the party scene, and that pandemic shift seems like an answer to that.

— Rachel Cohen Booth, Vox, 23 Oct. 2026
If there was any worry that Sühlmann would misunderstand the brand, it was dispelled the moment the Mission S was unveiled.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of misunderstand

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My husband, a bookseller, often notes that most books are bad, and this may be doubly true for children’s books, whose brevity leads foolhardy would-be authors to underestimate the difficulty of their task.

— Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Given past polling errors in Texas that underestimated the Republican vote, there's a healthy skepticism that Democrat James Talarico's margin of error lead in polling averages is enough to win.

— Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of underestimate

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Yet the company seems to continually miscalculate the extent to which this dynamic will jeopardize its business.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Undeniably, Putin and associates miscalculated how easily Russia’s military would be able to occupy and take control of Ukraine, repeating Cold War successes.

— Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026

Definition of miscalculate

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If major risks fall outside the scope, customers might mistake limited findings for a broader endorsement of the system.

— Avani Desai, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
This could help scientists avoid mistaking geological activity for evidence of extraterrestrial organisms.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026

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