Misread
verb
To read something incorrectly, to misunderstand the written word.
I misread the recipe and added too much sugar
Often appears as...
- misread the situation
- misread a sign
verb
To judge a situation, a person’s character or intentions wrongly.
I apologize if I misread your intentions
Often appears as...
- misread the situation
- misread intentions
verb
To read something incorrectly, to misunderstand the written word.
I misread the recipe and added too much sugar
Often appears as...
- misread the situation
- misread a sign
verb
To judge a situation, a person’s character or intentions wrongly.
I apologize if I misread your intentions
Often appears as...
- misread the situation
- misread intentions
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Pro Tip 1/3Exact words matter
Attention to detail is important because even small errors can change the meaning completely.
He misread 'baking soda' as 'baking powder' and the cake didn't rise properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Literal understanding
Misreading often refers to taking words at face value and missing the intended nuance or metaphor.
When she said 'raining cats and dogs,' he misread it and looked for animals in the rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural phrases
Be aware that idioms or colloquial language can be misread if you're not familiar with the culture.
Not knowing local slang, the tourist misread the sign and went the wrong way.
Pro Tip 1/3Exact words matter
Attention to detail is important because even small errors can change the meaning completely.
He misread 'baking soda' as 'baking powder' and the cake didn't rise properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Literal understanding
Misreading often refers to taking words at face value and missing the intended nuance or metaphor.
When she said 'raining cats and dogs,' he misread it and looked for animals in the rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural phrases
Be aware that idioms or colloquial language can be misread if you're not familiar with the culture.
Not knowing local slang, the tourist misread the sign and went the wrong way.
Pro Tip 1/3Exact words matter
Attention to detail is important because even small errors can change the meaning completely.
He misread 'baking soda' as 'baking powder' and the cake didn't rise properly.
Pro Tip 2/3Literal understanding
Misreading often refers to taking words at face value and missing the intended nuance or metaphor.
When she said 'raining cats and dogs,' he misread it and looked for animals in the rain.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural phrases
Be aware that idioms or colloquial language can be misread if you're not familiar with the culture.
Not knowing local slang, the tourist misread the sign and went the wrong way.
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Richard Thompson Ford: A...
the other people in the office thought her dress looked like a party dress, so they thought she was dressed up to go clubbing afterwards, later in the evening, and wasn't that serious about the job. They misread her clothing and therefore they misread her motivations.
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Surviving a nuclear...
your country and mine so the threat of my own destruction kept me from launching a nuclear attack on you that's the way we live and the danger that of course is that a misreading of a radar screen could actually cause a counter
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Are Honey Badgers...
solving problems that they're very exploratory and adaptable from what we've seen they're up there with the top innovators in the animal kingdom it's this intelligence often misread as calculated and cunning that gives these
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Olympic Training During...
what how are you not reading it right according to priscilla's doctor barry lowell it was an honest mistake he says a radiologist misread her mri results
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Richard Thompson Ford: A...
the other people in the office thought her dress looked like a party dress, so they thought she was dressed up to go clubbing afterwards, later in the evening, and wasn't that serious about the job. They misread her clothing and therefore they misread her motivations.
Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
your country and mine so the threat of my own destruction kept me from launching a nuclear attack on you that's the way we live and the danger that of course is that a misreading of a radar screen could actually cause a counter
Video examples
Are Honey Badgers...
solving problems that they're very exploratory and adaptable from what we've seen they're up there with the top innovators in the animal kingdom it's this intelligence often misread as calculated and cunning that gives these
Video examples
Olympic Training During...
what how are you not reading it right according to priscilla's doctor barry lowell it was an honest mistake he says a radiologist misread her mri results
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Quote examples
Julie Burchill
British Journalist
In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician's circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
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Charlie Pierce
American Journalist
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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Susan Rosenberg
American Activist
At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.
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Ben Rhodes
American Public Servant
What's interesting about the foreign policy establishment critique is, you know, I think the Blob and I have more in common in some ways than people might think, but also, what I was saying can be misread.
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Chris Riddell
British Artist
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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Thomas J. Sargent
American Economist
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
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Mitch McConnell
American Politician
We're not gonna misread our mandate.
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Julie Burchill
British Journalist
In my third husband I had discovered a blissfully laid-back type who thought it nothing less than hilarious when I misread the map on the way to Wales, so it took us an extra three hours, or when I was sick in a plastic carrier bag during much of the drive back from Devon - a bag that turned out to have a hole in it.
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Ben Domenech
American Writer
Engaging in a sycophantic way with any politician in the short term is tempting. It offers the lure of access and the promise of influence. But ultimately, it can lead to misreading the environment, giving too much of an ear to the politician's circle, and confining your audience to partisans.
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Charlie Pierce
American Journalist
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
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Susan Rosenberg
American Activist
At the time it seemed like there was a loosening of culture, there was a counterculture, there was a radicalization. I think we totally misread what was really going on in the world, that somehow a small group of people could mobilize a larger group of people.
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Ben Rhodes
American Public Servant
What's interesting about the foreign policy establishment critique is, you know, I think the Blob and I have more in common in some ways than people might think, but also, what I was saying can be misread.
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Chris Riddell
British Artist
The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
Quote examples
Thomas J. Sargent
American Economist
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
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Mitch McConnell
American Politician
We're not gonna misread our mandate.
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