misconceive

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mis=con=ceive

CIDE DICTIONARY

misconceive, v. t. & i. 

 To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to misapprehend.  [1913 Webster]
"Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- To misapprehend; misunderstand; mistake.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misconceive, v.
1 intr. (often foll. by of) have a wrong idea or conception.
2 tr. (as misconceived adj.) badly planned, organized, etc.
3 tr. misunderstand (a word, person, etc.).

Derivative

misconceiver n. misconception n.

THESAURUS

misconceive

contort, distort, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, make a miscue, make a mistake, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, misconstrue, miscue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misidentify, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, mistake, mistranslate, misunderstand, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

misconceive

Misjudgment

VB misjudge, misestimate, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive, fly in the face of facts, miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute, overestimate, underestimate, prejudge, forejudge, presuppose, presume, prejudicate, dogmatize, have a bias, have only one idea, jurare in verba magistri, run away with the notion, jump to a conclusion, rush to a conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions, look only at one side of the shield, view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles, not see beyond one's nose, dare pondus fumo, get the wrong sow by the ear, give a bias, give a twist, bias, warp, twist, prejudice, prepossess.

Error

VB be erroneous, cause error, mislead, misguide, lead astray, lead into error, beguile, misinform, delude, give a false impression, give a false idea, falsify, misstate, deceive, lie, err, be in error, be mistaken, be deceived, mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself, fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error, be in the wrong, blunder, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate, play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes, trip, stumble, lose oneself, go astray, fail, be in the wrong box, take the wrong sow by the ear, put the saddle on the wrong horse, reckon without one's host, take the shadow for the substance, dream.

Misinterpretation

VB misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply, mistake, misrepresent, pervert, explain wrongly, misstate, garble, 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.