Definitions
an understanding of something that is not correct
Word origin
From Middle English mys undirstonding, equivalent to misunderstand + -ing. Compare Dutch misverstand (“misunderstanding”), German Missverständnis (“misunderstanding”), Swedish missförstånd (“misunderstanding”).
Used in a sentence
“The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding. - Thoughtkick”
“It was only months and months afterwards, when I made the attempt to recover what was left of the body, that I heard the original quarrel arose from a misunderstanding about some hens.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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