misinterpretation

misinterpret | American Dictionary

misinterpret
verb[ T ]
us/ˌmɪs·ɪnˈtɜr·prət/
to not understand or explain something correctly:
She felt that her comments had been misinterpreted.

misinterpretation

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌmɪs·ɪnˌtɜr·prəˈteɪ·ʃən/
[ C ]If a patient isn’t honest, that can lead to misinterpretations of what is wrong with her.

Examples of misinterpret

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Evidence for variability in diagnostic thresholds should not be misinterpreted as evidence that depressive illness is merely a social construction or a culture-bound phenomenon.
Agitated and confused patients may misinterpret their surroundings and try to escape from perceived threat.
When doing this, the government uses a misspecified model, which misinterprets the role of private sector expectations.
Most of these well-intended ventures were unsuccessful, the enthusiasts underestimating housing's high cost to produce and maintain it, and sometimes misinterpreting demand by the poor.
In the end, the answer depends on the question asked, so these words have often been misinterpreted by the financial profession.
On a practical level it is important not to misinterpret the conclusions.
We argue that the subjects misinterpret this because the information to the visual system is ambiguous and also deceiving.
Here we find that it is possible to misinterpret the net benefits from the change in trade policy.
If the predicate is always clause-final, there is no reason why an unmarked clause-initial lexeme should be misinterpreted as a predicate.
Moreover, a message can be misunderstood or misinterpreted at its destination.
Lest this latter statement be misinterpreted, let me rephrase as follows.
It just seems to me that they have misinterpreted the nature of the problem.
In several important ways, however, the message on shared and nonshared environmental effects has been misinterpreted.
Otherwise, there is the danger of misinterpreting the roles of the arguments.
Consequently, the reader keeps "missing the point" or misinterpreting it, presumably resulting in faulty and fragmented comprehension, as reflected in their academic performance.
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