MISUNDERSTAND


Meaning of MISUNDERSTAND in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

often

Technology transfer is highly complex and often misunderstood .

■ VERB

think

I was astonished, and thought that he had misunderstood my question.

I thought I probably had misunderstood you.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

According to Bennett, you misunderstood the reason you were dropped from the list.

I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood.

I think she misunderstood you.

Oh, I must have misunderstood. I thought we were going to meet at 11:00.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Hammeed also misunderstood the simplest words.

Such concepts are unworthy of educated people and refer to anthropomorphism which has been misunderstood.

The art of that continent has often been misunderstood, or treated paternalistically.

We shall be using the term in the ordinary sense, without, we hope, any fear of being misunderstood.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.