as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
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Matthew Wills
September 10, 2023
Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir were misread, misunderstood, and misperceived by English-speaking readers due to interventions of publishers and editors.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2025
In lower-resource languages, models often misread tone or intent.
—Alessa Cross, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Often, the mistake comes from the game itself misreading the action rather than the player.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
With two on and no outs, Yamamoto raced off the mound to field a bunt that first baseman Freddie Freeman misread, anticipating Cleveland second baseman Will Wilson to angle the ball up the third-base line.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2025
In lower-resource languages, models often misread tone or intent.
—Alessa Cross, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Often, the mistake comes from the game itself misreading the action rather than the player.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2025
With two on and no outs, Yamamoto raced off the mound to field a bunt that first baseman Freddie Freeman misread, anticipating Cleveland second baseman Will Wilson to angle the ball up the third-base line.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misread
misunderstand
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This approach profoundly misunderstands the nature of justice and the role of our civil courts.—
Bruce M. Plaxen,
Baltimore Sun,
12 July 2025
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But that argument misunderstands the nature of the fast-fashion sector.—
Elizabeth Cline,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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“Misread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misread. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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