Word Meanings - MISINTERPRETATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISINTERPRETATION)

• Misacceptation
• Misunderstanding
• misinterpretation
• misuse
• Perversion
• Abuse
• misrepresentation
• distortion
• corruption
• caricature
• sophistry

Related words: (words related to MISINTERPRETATION)

• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• MISACCEPTATION
  Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
• MISUSE
  1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. 2. To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. Syn.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• MISUSER
  Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier. (more info) 1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge.
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• ABUSE
  1. To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle shoots rapidly
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• MISUSEMENT
  Misuse.
• ABUSER
  One who abuses .
• DISTORTION
  An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• SOPHISTRY
  1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense
• MISINTERPRETATION
  The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
• CARICATURE
  1. An exaggeration, or distortion by exaggeration, of parts or characteristics, as in a picture. 2. A picture or other figure or description in which the peculiarities of a person or thing are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque;
• ABUSEFUL
  Full of abuse; abusive. "Abuseful names." Bp. Barlow.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• SELF-ABUSE
  1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties. 2. Self-deception; delusion. Shak. 3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.
• UNCORRUPTION
  Incorruption.