392 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ mɪsˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], [ mɪsˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], [ m_ɪ_s_ˌʌ_n_d_ə_s_t_ˈa_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for misunderstanding:

• mistaken (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• tactless (adjective)
• unpolitic (adjective)
• untactful (adjective)
• argument, fight (noun)
• break (noun)
• clash (noun)
• conflicting purposes (noun)
• cross purposes (noun)
• difficulty (noun)
• disagreement (noun)
• dispute (noun)
• erroneousness (noun)
• error (noun)
• falling-out (noun)
• falseness (noun)
• instance of having the wrong idea (noun)
• miscalculation (noun)
• misconception (noun)
• misestimate (noun)
• misestimation (noun)
• misinterpretation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• quarrel (noun)
• rupture (noun)
• snafu (noun)
• misinterpreting (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words

How to use "misunderstanding" in context?

Paraphrases for misunderstanding

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Synonyms for Misunderstanding:

• adj.

  • mistaken (adjective)
  • mis-informed,
  • mis informed,
  • most misjudging,
  • un sounder,
  • mis construed,
  • mis-taken,
  • Misconstrued,
  • in-appropriate,
  • most misconstrued,
  • more misjudging,
  • mis judging,
  • mis guided,
  • unadvised,
  • more misinterpreting,
  • mis interpreting,
  • un-founded,
  • mis-construed,
  • more misconstrued,
  • more misinformed,
  • un-sound,
  • un truer,
  • mis-guided,
  • mis-interpreting,
  • wide mark,
  • most misunderstanding,
  • more misunderstanding,
  • un sound,
  • un-sounder,
  • off base,
  • most misinterpreting,
  • un advised,
  • in accurate,
  • un-soundest,
  • most tricked,
  • more duped,
  • un-real,
  • un-truer,
  • un-advised,
  • un truest,
  • un founded,
  • un-truest,
  • more tricked,
  • misinformed,
  • barking wrong tree,
  • illadvised,
  • most duped,
  • in appropriate,
  • most misinformed,
  • mis taken,
  • mis-judging.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • undiplomatic,
  • wrongly identified,
  • Unpolitic,
  • mistaken,
  • wide of mark,
  • all wet,
  • barking up wrong tree,
  • under wrong impression,
  • way off,
  • Unconsiderate,
  • untactful,
  • confused with,
  • tactless,
  • wrong number,
  • off track.
  • tactless (adjective)
  • more unconsiderate,
  • un-considerate,
  • un polished,
  • un subtle,
  • un kindest,
  • un-civil,
  • un kinder,
  • un feeling,
  • in-judicious,
  • dis courteous,
  • in-discreet,
  • in judicious,
  • dis-courteous,
  • un subtler,
  • un considerate,
  • most blundering,
  • un sympathetic,
  • un civil,
  • un perceptive,
  • un-kindest,
  • in delicate,
  • un-subtler,
  • un-kinder,
  • in-sensitive,
  • un-subtle,
  • un-kind,
  • most unconsiderate,
  • un subtlest,
  • un-perceptive,
  • in sensitive,
  • un kind,
  • more blundering,
  • in discreet,
  • un-subtlest,
  • in-delicate.
  • unpolitic (adjective)
  • un politic,
  • un-politic.
  • untactful (adjective)
  • un tactful,
  • un-tactful.

• n.

  •
  • argument,
  • a war of words.
  •
  • gaffe,
  • slip,
  • flaw,
  • mix up,
  • oversight,
  • blunder,
  • understand.
  • argument, fight (noun)
  • debate,
  • quarrel,
  • variance,
  • dissension,
  • sour note,
  • squabble,
  • tiff,
  • bad vibes,
  • blowup,
  • fuss,
  • words.
  • break (noun)
  • dis-affection,
  • dis affection,
  • mis-understanding,
  • mis understanding,
  • dis-affections,
  • mis-understandings,
  • mis understandings,
  • difference opinion,
  • dis affections.
  • clash (noun)
  • dis harmonies,
  • settos,
  • dis-cords,
  • dis cord,
  • set tos,
  • dis-harmonies,
  • dis-harmony,
  • have go each other,
  • runin,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis harmony,
  • have a go each other,
  • dis cords,
  • set-tos,
  • have go at each other.
  • conflicting purposes (noun)
  • cross purposes.
  • cross purposes (noun)
  • contrary purpose,
  • contrary purposes,
  • mutual misunderstandings,
  • crossed wire.
  • difficulty (noun)
  • bickerings.
  • disagreement (noun)
  • cross-purpose,
  • atmospherics,
  • ill feelings,
  • divisiveness,
  • ill feeling.
  • dispute (noun)
  • bone contention,
  • flareup,
  • up roar,
  • up-roars,
  • up roars,
  • up-roar.
  • erroneousness (noun)
  • incorrectness.
  • error (noun)
  • screamer,
  • XS,
  • screamers,
  • mismanagement,
  • booboos,
  • howler,
  • boo-boo,
  • slipup,
  • errors,
  • goof,
  • faux pas,
  • screw-up,
  • bad job,
  • Misbelief,
  • booboo,
  • howlers,
  • boo-boos.
  • falling-out (noun)
  • ex changes,
  • fallingout,
  • sharp word,
  • ex change.
  • falseness (noun)
  • un truthfulnesses,
  • un-truthfulness,
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • un truthfulness.
  • instance of having the wrong idea (noun)
  • delusion,
  • misinterpretation,
  • confusion,
  • mix-up,
  • misapprehension,
  • confounding,
  • mistake.
  • miscalculation (noun)
  • over valuations,
  • over-estimations,
  • mis calculation,
  • mis calculations,
  • mis counts,
  • mis-calculations,
  • undervaluations,
  • under valuations,
  • under-estimation,
  • under valuation,
  • under estimations,
  • under estimation,
  • over-valuation,
  • under-estimations,
  • over-valuations,
  • mis-calculation,
  • over estimation,
  • mis-counts,
  • under-valuation,
  • overestimations,
  • over estimations,
  • over-estimation,
  • under-valuations,
  • over valuation.
  • misconception (noun)
  • mis take,
  • mis-conceptions,
  • mis-constructions,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis-construction,
  • mis constructions,
  • mis conception,
  • mis-take,
  • mis-conception,
  • mis construction,
  • mis conceptions,
  • mis interpretations,
  • mis-takes,
  • mis takes,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • mistaken beliefs.
  • misestimate (noun)
  • mis estimates,
  • mis-estimate,
  • mis-estimates,
  • mis estimate.
  • misestimation (noun)
  • mis estimation,
  • mis-estimation,
  • mis-estimations,
  • mis estimations.
  • misinterpretation (noun)
  • distortion,
  • deformation,
  • travesty,
  • misquotation,
  • misrepresentation.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • misestimation,
  • break-up,
  • difficulty,
  • have a go at each other,
  • misconstruction,
  • fisticuffs,
  • mutual misunderstanding,
  • spat,
  • overvaluations,
  • mistaken belief,
  • bustup,
  • break,
  • sharp words,
  • split-up,
  • erroneousness,
  • set-to,
  • misconception,
  • cross-purposes,
  • brannigan,
  • catfight,
  • overvaluation,
  • mixup,
  • rupture,
  • falseness,
  • disagreement,
  • snafu,
  • crossed wires,
  • miscount,
  • dispute,
  • undervaluation,
  • set to,
  • misconstructions,
  • underestimations,
  • Misjudgment,
  • misreckoning,
  • rift,
  • misestimate,
  • falling-out,
  • scrimmage,
  • setto,
  • flare up,
  • miff,
  • clash,
  • miscalculation,
  • overestimation,
  • underestimation,
  • error.
  • quarrel (noun)
  • brannigans,
  • catfights,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis-approval.
  • rupture (noun)
  • bustups,
  • split-ups,
  • break-ups,
  • splitups,
  • split ups,
  • break ups,
  • splitup.
  • snafu (noun)
  • foul-up,
  • foulup,
  • goof-up,
  • goof up.

• v.

  • misinterpreting (verb)
  • mistaking,
  • misreading,
  • confusing,
  • misinterpreting,
  • Deforming,
  • Distorting,
  • misquoting,
  • twisting,
  • misrepresenting,
  • Garbling.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • worry.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disunity,
  • showdown,
  • tension,
  • war of words,
  • toing and froing,
  • disharmony,
  • standoff,
  • unpleasantness,
  • blow up,
  • difference,
  • disputation,
  • row,
  • duel,
  • ruckus,
  • affray,
  • tangle,
  • conflict,
  • ding-dong,
  • face off,
  • ballyhoo,
  • schism,
  • breach,
  • rumpus,
  • running battle,
  • infighting,
  • hair-splitting,
  • flak,
  • strife,
  • turf war,
  • free-for-all,
  • confrontation,
  • tussle,
  • circularity,
  • fracas,
  • battlefield,
  • contention,
  • shouting match,
  • false impression,
  • ructions,
  • hoo-ha,
  • discord,
  • vendetta,
  • crossfire,
  • run-in,
  • slanging match,
  • feud.
  •
  • Skirmishing,
  • collision,
  • war,
  • exchange,
  • dogfight,
  • illusion,
  • skirmish,
  • faction,
  • the fray,
  • encounter,
  • warfare,
  • pitched battle.
  •
  • scene,
  • scrap,
  • split,
  • friction.
  •
  • brush,
  • division.
  • Other relevant words:
  • bitch.

How to use "Misunderstanding" in context?

Paraphrases for Misunderstanding:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    incomprehension, misapprehension, misinterpretation, Misperception.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    understanding.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    understanding.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    misleading.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    blunder, clarity, confounding, discord, dispute, disregard, failure, miscarriage, misrepresentation.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    confusing, hurting, knowing, merging, mixing, mocking, prejudice, regarding, Ignoring.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    mix-up.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    ambiguity, comprehension, confusion, disagreement, doubt, equivocation, error, fallacy, ignorance, miscalculation, misconception, mistake, shuffle, unawareness, unfamiliarity, miscommunication, mix-up.