Word Meanings - MISAPPREHENSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

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• MEANLY
  In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  In the intervening time; during the interval.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• PREAPPREHENSION
  An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• INAPPREHENSION
  Want of apprehension.
• FOREMEANT
  Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.