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misunderstood
 
Adjective misunderstood has 2 senses
  1. misunderstood - wrongly understood; "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question"
    Antonym:     understood (indirect, via ununderstood)
  2. misunderstood - not given sympathetic understanding; "a sorely misunderstood child"
    Antonym:     unabused (indirect, via abused)
Verb misunderstand has 1 sense
  1. misconstrue, misinterpret, misconceive, misunderstand, misapprehend, be amiss - interpret in the wrong way; "Don't misinterpret my comments as criticism"; "She misconstrued my remarks"
    --1 is one way to interpret, construe, see
    Derived forms: noun misunderstanding1, noun misunderstanding2
    Sample sentences:
    Sam and Sue misunderstand the movie
    They won't misunderstand the story
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