Synonyms of the word

misunderstanding

• n. A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception.
• n. A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
• v. present participle of misunderstand.

interpretation

• n. (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
• n. (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
• n. (uncountable) The power of explaining.
• n. (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• n. (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results…
• n. (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in…
• n. (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional…

misapprehension

• n. A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.

misconception

• n. a mistaken belief, a wrong idea.

misinterpretation

• n. An instance of misinterpreting.

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

mistaking

• v. present participle of mistake.
• n. (obsolete) A mistake.