misinterpretation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mis=in=ter=pre=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

misinterpretation, n. 

 The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

misinterpretation

aberrancy, aberration, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, injudiciousness, misapplication, misappreciation, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconjecture, misconstruction, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misfeasance, misjudgment, misreading, misrepresentation, misuse, misvaluation, peccancy, perversion, poor judgment, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, straining, torturing, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

misinterpretation

Misinterpretation

N misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication, catachresis, eisegesis, cross-reading, cross-purposes, mistake, misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, abuse of terms, parody, travesty, falsification, misinterpreted, untranslated, untranslatable.