Synonym: difference, difficulty, disagreement, error, misinterpretation, mistake. Similar words: understand, outstanding, funding, surrounding, underlying, abound in, under, landing. Meaning: ['mɪsʌndə(r)'stændɪŋ] n. 1. putting the wrong interpretation on 2. an understanding of something that is not correct.
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91 This can lead to misunderstanding, mutual frustration, anger, quarrelling and perhaps aggression.
92 The prevailing view of such work group resistance has often been that it stems from workers' misunderstanding of management's intentions.
93 So this account seems to be based on a misunderstanding of what Labov's work has been about.
94 There has been a misunderstanding of the Government's plans from the point of view of social security benefits.
95 People often find it necessary not to say and act honestly in order to gain what they desire, or to avoid misunderstanding or conflicts. Dr T.P.Chia
96 The cats are mistaking our messages and we, in the past, have reciprocated by misunderstanding theirs.
97 Thus Hazlitt piles up instances of how humour results from surprise, incongruity, absurdity and misunderstanding.
98 This was a classic example of big government advocates misunderstanding a problem and designing a government solution guaranteed to make it worse.
99 I was attending elsewhere to an immigration problem which was based on a misunderstanding between the Home Office and the Foreign Office.
100 Concerns that were aired by many transit executives last month were just a big bureaucratic misunderstanding, says Rep.
101 Nothing went smoothly,even when it appeared that the most minute details had been described with no further room for misunderstanding.
102 You seem to have cleared this whole misunderstanding up quite satisfactorily.
103 Books conceived in ignorance or misunderstanding are evaluated by reviewers who usually know even less.
103 Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
104 Culture-specific rules and procedures of turn-taking provide ample breeding ground for misunderstanding.
105 In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
106 There must have been a misunderstanding between Theopholis and the old lady.
107 It was an interesting move pregnant with unforeseen circumstances, not least the concern and misunderstanding to which it gave rise locally.
108 For users not expert in statistics, a great deal of the output will be meaningless or open to misunderstanding.
109 We must clear away the misunderstanding.
110 Misunderstanding three : interest-free installments for free.
111 Many a quarrel as come about through a misunderstanding.
112 This is liable to cause misunderstanding.
113 Your disavowal is informed by a misunderstanding.
114 Lagerstroemia lifted after the misunderstanding with the Swallow.
115 The quarrel originated in a misunderstanding.
116 Perhaps there's a underlining misunderstanding in all of this.
117 The misunderstanding between us has been cleared up.
118 This assertion rests on a misunderstanding.
119 The quarrel originate in misunderstanding.
120 Their estrangement originated in a misunderstanding.
More similar words: understand, outstanding, funding, surrounding, underlying, abound in, under, landing, founder, undergo, under way, come under, fall under, spending, undermine, undertake, depending, first and foremost, under control, undergraduate, corresponding to, hand in, end in, send in, wander, the first person, render, tender, gender, stand.