MISCONSTRUCTION Synonyms
There are 5 hypernyms of the word misconstruction. (close relations)
Best Alternatives
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| confusion | nounn | |||||
noun • disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably • a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior • a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused • an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended • a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another | ||||||
| distortion | nounn | |||||
noun • a change for the worse • a shape resulting from distortion • an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image • a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) • the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean • the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | ||||||
| error | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention • inadvertent incorrectness • a misconception resulting from incorrect information • (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed • departure from what is ethically acceptable • (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer • part of a statement that is not correct | ||||||
| miscalculation | nounn | |||||
noun • a mistake in calculating | ||||||
| misinterpretation | nounn | |||||
noun • putting the wrong interpretation on | ||||||
| misrepresentation | nounn | |||||
noun • a misleading falsehood • a willful perversion of facts | ||||||
| mistake | nounn | |||||
noun • a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention • an understanding of something that is not correct • part of a statement that is not correct verb • identify incorrectly • to make a mistake or be incorrect | ||||||
| misconstrual | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately) | ||||||
