Misreading

Synonyms for "misreading" (70 found)

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Closest matches (14)

Noun(6 words)
biased readingblunderdistortdistorted interpretationerroneous readingfaulty inference

Strong matches (21)

Related words (35)

Noun(10 words)
misinterpretmisinterpretationmisinterpretingmisparsemisperceptionmisreadmiss the pointreading errorstart time misreadsymbolic misperception
Verb(2 words)
misinterpret instructionsmisunderstand the instructions

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

11 entries
cognitive biascognitive errorcognitive processinterpretationinterpretive errormisinterpretationmistakingmisunderstandingperceptual errorreadingreading error

More specific

12 entries
confirmation bias misreadingcontextual misreadingglyph misreadinghandwriting misreadingliteral misreadingnotational misreadingphonetic misreadingselective interpretationsemantic misreadingstatistical misreadingsymbolic misreadingtypographical misreading

Collocations

12 entries
axis misreadingdata misreadinghandwriting misreadinginterpretive misreadingliteral misreadingmisreading datamisreading errornotational misreadingstatistical misreadingsymbolic misreadingtextual misreadingtypographical misreading

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

When I misread sentences on Tatoeba, I often add my misreading as a new sentence.

Source: tatoeba (9149405)

Misreading is the mother of many Tatoeba sentences.

Source: tatoeba (11991318)

When done correctly, kerning helps to improve the readability of text by adding or removing space between two letters. Bad kerning, also known as keming, leads to misreadings, and in the worst cases, incredibly bad (but humorous) misunderstandings.

Source: wiktionary

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