misunderstood
- improperly understood or interpreted.
- not appreciated.
Origin of misunderstood
misunderstand
- to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- to fail to understand or interpret rightly the words or behavior of.
Origin of misunderstand
Synonyms for misunderstand
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Contemporary Examples of misunderstood
As a professed bi-sexual, Evans is misunderstood by those who find her choices offensive.
Risky Business or None of Your Business? Gay XXX Films and the Condom QuestionAurora Snow
November 1, 2014
Smiths fandom was an once small and semi-exclusive club, reserved for the clever, literary, and misunderstood teenager.
“Haters gonna hate” makes the person who says it into an automatic martyr, persecuted, misunderstood, maligned.
Jonathan Edwards is one of the most misunderstood individuals in American history.
His fame is essentially on the back of a powerful business titan who misunderstood his original work.
Historical Examples of misunderstood
Hester did not like the remark, and he fancied from her look she had misunderstood him.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
I make this statement now in order not to be misunderstood when later I may say that God must be this or that.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
"You misunderstood me, Miss Gunn," said the doctor, now himself again.
Hetty's Strange HistoryAnonymous
She misunderstood: he laughed, but his nervousness was genuine.
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
Do you know what it is to be misunderstood—to be despised without deserving it?'
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
misunderstood
- not properly or sympathetically understooda misunderstood work of art; a misunderstood adolescent
misunderstand
- to fail to understand properly
Word Origin and History for misunderstood
1590s, past participle adjective from misunderstand.
misunderstand
c.1200; see mis- (1) + understand. Related: Misunderstood; misunderstanding.