Thesaurus
misinterpret
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of MISINTERPRET
1
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <his note on this passage in the novel seriously misinterprets the author's meaning>
Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp
Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate
2
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of <we misinterpreted the directions and ended up on the wrong side of town>
Seen & Heard
What made you want to look up misinterpret? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).