mishear

verb

Definition of mishearnext
as in to misunderstand

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Recent Examples of mishear These assistants regularly misunderstand, mishear, and sometimes just don’t listen at all. — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024 She's confused: Did Adrian mishear something or is Brayden being manipulative? — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 July 2023 The people in her stories mishear and misunderstand one another, indulge in compulsive wordplay and defiant corniness. — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mishear
  1. misunderstand
  2. misread
  3. misinterpret
  4. misperceive
  5. misapprehend
Verb
  • Make your wisdom easy to digest and impossible to misunderstand.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • If social media is any indication, some locals (and Karri) misunderstood the signup form and accidentally opted-in to getting alerts via text, phone and email...
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of misunderstand
Verb
  • Read: How Netanyahu misread his relationship with Trump Netanyahu was prime minister for 13 of the 14 years before October 7.
    — Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The federal government says the Texas plaintiffs are misreading the law in a way that would disrupt the nuclear power industry, which supplies about one-fifth of the nation’s electricity.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
Definition of misread
Verb
  • Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The researchers confirmed the accuracy of the audit in a memo to investigators, but said there were instances where the study was misunderstood or misinterpreted.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2025
Definition of misinterpret
Verb
  • According to the researchers, these misperceptions may stop people from speaking up about their concerns and cause policymakers to misperceive how much their constituents care.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Russian pilots could misperceive the escorts as offensive NATO warplanes and engage them, precipitating a disaster with unknown consequences.
    — Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
Definition of misperceive
Verb
  • But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim?
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Some people misapprehend it and think of as imitation.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
Definition of misapprehend

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“Mishear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mishear. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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