All misunderstand synonyms
mis·un·der·stand
M m verb misunderstand
- misread — Read (a piece of text) wrongly.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misconceive — Fail to understand correctly.
- confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
- misapply — to make a wrong application or use of.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misreckon — (transitive) To add (something) up incorrectly, make a wrong calculation of (an amount etc.).
- misknow — to fail to understand or recognize; misunderstand: to misknow the problem.
- miss the point — fail to understand
- take amiss — out of the right or proper course, order, or condition; improperly; wrongly; astray: Did I speak amiss?