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Word Meanings - MISUNDERSTANDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

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  • WRANGLE
    An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation. Syn. -- Altercation; bickering; brawl; jar; jangle; contest; controversy. See Altercation.
  • QUARRELING
    Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
  • FAULTINESS
    Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
  • BLUNDERHEAD
    A stupid, blundering fellow.
  • MISACCEPTATION
    Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
  • BLUNDERER
    One who is apt to blunder.
  • ERRORFUL
    Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
  • 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.
  • MISTAKEN
    1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
  • MISTAKER
    One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
  • BRAWLING
    1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
  • FAULT
    A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
  • MISTAKE
    1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
  • BLUNDERING
    Characterized by blunders.
  • FAULTING
    The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
  • EMBROILMENT
    The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
  • 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.
  • TUMULTER
    A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
  • TUMULTUARILY
    In a tumultuary manner.
  • MISUNDERSTANDER
    One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
  • DISEMBROIL
    To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
  • PICK-FAULT
    One who seeks out faults.
  • TERRORLESS
    Free from terror. Poe.
  • SELF-DELUSION
    The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
  • TERRORIZE
    To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
  • INDISPUTED
    Undisputed.
  • DISPUTE
    To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig.,

 

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