misjudge

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: mis=judge

CIDE DICTIONARY

misjudge, v. t. & i. 

 To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misjudge, v.tr. (also absol.)
1 judge wrongly.
2 have a wrong opinion of.

Derivative

misjudgement n. (also misjudgment).

THESAURUS

misjudge

contort, distort, err, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, judge amiss, misapply, misappreciate, misapprehend, miscalculate, miscite, miscompute, misconceive, misconjecture, misconstrue, misdeem, misesteem, misestimate, misevaluate, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misquote, misread, misreckon, misrender, mistake, misthink, mistranslate, misunderstand, misvalue, pervert, squeeze, strain the sense, torture, twist the words, wrench

ROGET THESAURUS

misjudge

& Sophistry

VB judge intuitively, judge by intuition, hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random, reason ill, falsely, misjudge, paralogize, take on faith, take as a given, assume (supposition), pervert, quibble, equivocate, mystify, evade, elude, gloss over, varnish, misteach, mislead, cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs, misrepresent, beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment).

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.