misread
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misreading\ ˌmis-ˈrē-diŋ
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Synonyms & Antonyms for misread
Synonyms
misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, misknow, misperceive, miss, mistake, misunderstand
Antonyms
appreciate, apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, fathom, get, grasp, grok, know, make out, penetrate, perceive, savvy, see, seize, take in, understand
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Examples of misread in a Sentence
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Emojis are most effective as emotional shorthand, helping to signal tone in digital communications, where tone is so easily misread. — Michele Moses, The New Yorker, "A Bot That Captures the Ambivalence of Human Emotion," 4 Sep. 2019 Android's no safer While Beer highlights some of the iPhone's vulnerabilities, the attack shouldn't be misread to suggest that Google's Android operating system is safer, Levin said. — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, "Hackers breached iPhones for years, Google says," 30 Aug. 2019 One judge dissented One of the court's judges, Michele Hotten, dissented, arguing that the judges were misreading the law. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Court: Girl broke child porn law by texting explicit video of herself," 29 Aug. 2019 These readers and academics misread both Alcott and Jo. — Sarah Schutte, National Review, "Louisa May Alcott: A Writer for All Ages," 22 Aug. 2019 Yet Rosselló misread the anger brewing among his people after years of economic stagnation and broken promises. — Patricia Mazzei, BostonGlobe.com, "Puerto Rico’s governor misread the anger brewing about him," 25 July 2019 The timing of Fukuyama’s essay — it was published a few months before the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Empire began to disintegrate — may have been why critics misread it. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, "Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’ Was Misunderstood by Critics," 7 Aug. 2019 Hoang’s books and her own love story show that misreading social cues isn’t always a hindrance. — Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, "A romance novelist struggled with Asperger’s. Now she writes about love on the spectrum.," 19 July 2019 This misread the reasons for the underwhelming political effect of the report, though. — Rich Lowry, National Review, "The Mueller Fizzle," 26 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'misread.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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