Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Misinterpretation

Nouns
  • misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation, misconstruction, misapplication
  • catachresis
  • eisegesis
  • cross-reading, cross-purposes
  • mistake etc. Error. misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration etc. Exaggeration
  • false coloring, false construction
  • abuse of terms
  • parody, travesty
  • falsification etc. (lying) Falsehood.
Verbs
  • misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply
  • mistake etc. Error. misrepresent, pervert
  • explain wrongly, misstate
  • garble etc. (falsify) Falsehood
  • distort, detort
  • travesty, play upon words
  • stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning
  • explain away
  • put a bad construction on, put a false construction on
  • give a false coloring. be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.
Adjectives
  • misinterpreted etc. v.
  • untranslated, untranslatable.