Associations to the word «Misread»

Wiktionary

MISREAD, verb. To read wrongly, normally by accident; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
MISREAD, noun. An instance of reading wrongly.

Dictionary definition

MISREAD, verb. Read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data".
MISREAD, verb. Interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne