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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISUNDERSTANDING)
- Blunder
- Error
- mistake
- misunderstanding
- fault
- oversight
- inaccuracy
- delusion
- slip
- Misacceptation
- Misunderstanding
- misinterpretation
- misuse
- Quarrel
- Brawl
- altercation
- affray
- squabble
- feud
- tumult
- dispute
- wrangle
- variance
- disagreement
- hostility
- quarreling
- embroilment
- bickering
- broil
Related words: (words related to MISUNDERSTANDING)
- 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.,