Roget's Thesaurus#523. MisinterpretationNounsmisinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis; eisegesis; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake etc. 495. misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration etc. 549; false coloring, false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification etc. (lying) 544. Verbsmisinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake etc. 495. misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble etc. (falsify) 544; distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring. be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes. Adjectivesmisinterpreted etc. v.; untranslated, untranslatable. |