单词 | misunderstanding |
释义 | misunderstandingn.1 1. Failure to understand; mistaking of the meaning of something; an instance of this, a misconception or misinterpretation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [noun] mistakinga1400 misconceivinga1425 misunderstandingc1443 misweening1493 misknowledgea1500 misconstructiona1535 misconstruinga1535 misinterpreting1563 misinterpretation1576 mispersuasion1593 misconceit1596 a mistake of1614 misconcept1616 misinference1627 misinferring1627 misapprehension1629 misconception1658 misrendering1661 misapprehending1702 misperception1722 misintelligence1779 misthinking1788 misreading1832 miscomprehension1843 criss-cross1877 misconstrual1950 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 21 (MED) And so..þe bettir kepe hem fro erryng and of it þe mys vndirstonding, þan if þei schulde it heere oonly oonys or twies bi word of preching. 1555 E. Bonner Homilies xiii. 63b We shall moost plainly perceaue theyr erroure, and mysvnderstandyng. 1579 in W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue sig. B i All controuersies growne among men about their misunderstanding of the Scriptures. 1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 11 Through misunderstanding of the law. 1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 392 The misunderstanding of a word. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iv. 172 I hope, therefore, no Man will, by the grossest Misunderstanding, or Perversion, of my Meaning, Misrepresent me. View more context for this quotation a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 184 Misrepresentations of reasons, And misunderstandings of notes. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxv. 472 To avoid the possibility of any historical misunderstanding or puzzlement hereafter. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby viii. 180 After the armistice he tried frantically to get home, but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead. 1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 25 June 6/3 I would like to clear up some possible misunderstanding of the procedure of setting the reserve price of wool each year. 2. An interruption of mutual understanding or harmonious relations; dissension, disagreement. Later also in weakened use: a minor disagreement or quarrel. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] unsibeOE unsaughta1122 un-i-sibc1275 conteckc1290 discordingc1325 distancec1325 discordance1340 dissensionc1384 batea1400 discordc1425 variancec1425 variationc1485 disgreement?1504 distinction1520 factiona1538 jar1546 variety1546 disagreeance1548 disagreeing1548 disagreement1548 misliking1564 odds1567 mislikea1586 discordancy1587 disagree1589 distancy1595 dissent1596 dislike1598 secting1598 dichostasy1606 fraction1609 dissentation1623 ill blood1624 misintelligence1632 clashing1642 misunderstanding1642 discomposure1659 disjointinga1715 uneasiness1744 friction1760 misunderstand1819 unharmony1866 inharmony1867 trouble at (the or t') mill1967 1642 King Charles I in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1721) II. 5 The malignant Party, which have..begot this Misunderstanding between us and our good Subjects. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 339 The accommodation which seem'd to be in view between the pope and the French, upon some mis~understanding, quite disappears. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 263. ¶3 The many Misunderstandings which are created by the Malice and Insinuation of the meanest Servants between People thus related. 1769 G. G. Beekman Let. 22 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 720 You cant be more sorry than I am of the great misunderstanding that there is between the Coliny's and Great Brittain. 1849 R. Cobden Speeches 17 America has three times, within the last few years, had a misunderstanding with two of the greatest Powers of the world. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxxiii. 345 Some little pique or misunderstanding between them. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xv. 232 ‘I believe that there was some misunderstanding,’ said Mrs. Honeychurch uneasily. 1987 R. Carver in New Yorker 1 June 31/2 After a three-year courtship involving many separations, letters, and the inevitable misunderstandings, they were at last married. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). misunderstandingadj.n.2 A. adj. That misunderstands. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adjective] amiss1582 mistaking1582 misconceiving1590 misconceived1592 misconstruing1593 misconceited1598 mistaken1600 misunderstanding1610 misconstruous1632 misapprehensive1646 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God viii. xxvi. 333 The mis-vnderstanding reader..might imagine that the Pagans worshiped gods in the Temples. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. v. 107 These are but the bold effusions of a misunderstanding contentious temerarious passion. 1881 Athenæum 23 July 103/3 Whatever is most vicious in a style which grows out of a misunderstanding worship of Keats. 1909 Daily Chron. 6 July 3/3 Man is still unredeemed and unrepentant, smug, self-complacent and misunderstanding. B. n.2 With the. Misunderstanding people as a class. ΚΠ 1900 W. M. Sinclair Unto you Young Men iii. 72 Doubts and difficulties may make sad..the fainthearted, the misunderstanding. Derivatives ˌmisunderˈstandingly adv. with incorrect comprehension; as a result of misunderstanding. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > [adverb] beside (or wide of) the cushion1576 in (also under, upon) a mistake1622 mistakenly1660 misunderstandinglya1667 mistakably1844 misapprehendingly1862 misapprehensively1862 a1667 G. Wither Perpetuall Parl. in Misc. Wks. (1872–7) 56 Misunderstandingly, They such invectives, and reproofs apply, As were intended only against those, Who seeming to be friends, were secret foes. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf vi. 69 ‘You have read Darwin,’ I said. ‘But you read him misunderstandingly when you conclude that the struggle for existence sanctions your wanton destruction of life.’ 1985 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 12 Aug. 12 d10 She's apparently straight and was misunderstandingly leased the one vacant cottage in the area. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1c1443adj.n.21610 |
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