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People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.
Michael K. Williams

Meaning of "misconstrue" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISCONSTRUE

misconstrue  [ˌmɪskənˈstruː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISCONSTRUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misconstrue is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb misconstrue in English.

WHAT DOES MISCONSTRUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misconstrue in the English dictionary

The definition of misconstrue in the dictionary is to interpret mistakenly.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISCONSTRUE

PRESENT

Present
I misconstrue
you misconstrue
he/she/it misconstrues
we misconstrue
you misconstrue
they misconstrue
Present continuous
I am misconstruing
you are misconstruing
he/she/it is misconstruing
we are misconstruing
you are misconstruing
they are misconstruing
Present perfect
I have misconstrued
you have misconstrued
he/she/it has misconstrued
we have misconstrued
you have misconstrued
they have misconstrued
Present perfect continuous
I have been misconstruing
you have been misconstruing
he/she/it has been misconstruing
we have been misconstruing
you have been misconstruing
they have been misconstruing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I misconstrued
you misconstrued
he/she/it misconstrued
we misconstrued
you misconstrued
they misconstrued
Past continuous
I was misconstruing
you were misconstruing
he/she/it was misconstruing
we were misconstruing
you were misconstruing
they were misconstruing
Past perfect
I had misconstrued
you had misconstrued
he/she/it had misconstrued
we had misconstrued
you had misconstrued
they had misconstrued
Past perfect continuous
I had been misconstruing
you had been misconstruing
he/she/it had been misconstruing
we had been misconstruing
you had been misconstruing
they had been misconstruing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will misconstrue
you will misconstrue
he/she/it will misconstrue
we will misconstrue
you will misconstrue
they will misconstrue
Future continuous
I will be misconstruing
you will be misconstruing
he/she/it will be misconstruing
we will be misconstruing
you will be misconstruing
they will be misconstruing
Future perfect
I will have misconstrued
you will have misconstrued
he/she/it will have misconstrued
we will have misconstrued
you will have misconstrued
they will have misconstrued
Future perfect continuous
I will have been misconstruing
you will have been misconstruing
he/she/it will have been misconstruing
we will have been misconstruing
you will have been misconstruing
they will have been misconstruing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would misconstrue
you would misconstrue
he/she/it would misconstrue
we would misconstrue
you would misconstrue
they would misconstrue
Conditional continuous
I would be misconstruing
you would be misconstruing
he/she/it would be misconstruing
we would be misconstruing
you would be misconstruing
they would be misconstruing
Conditional perfect
I would have misconstrue
you would have misconstrue
he/she/it would have misconstrue
we would have misconstrue
you would have misconstrue
they would have misconstrue
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been misconstruing
you would have been misconstruing
he/she/it would have been misconstruing
we would have been misconstruing
you would have been misconstruing
they would have been misconstruing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misconstrue
we let´s misconstrue
you misconstrue
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misconstrue
Past participle
misconstrued
Present Participle
misconstruing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISCONSTRUE


Andrew
ˈændruː
bestrew
bɪˈstruː
click-through
ˈklɪkˌθruː
construe
kənˈstruː
crew
kruː
drew
druː
grew
ɡruː
guru
ˈɡʊruː
half-true
ˈhɑːfˌtruː
Hebrew
ˈhiːbruː
Nauru
nɑːˈuːruː
overstrew
ˌəʊvəˈstruː
Peru
pəˈruː
rue
ruː
screw
skruː
strew
struː
through
θruː
thru
θruː
true
truː
untrue
ʌnˈtruː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISCONSTRUE

misconceit
misconceive
misconceived
misconceiver
misconception
misconduct
misconjecture
misconnect
misconnection
misconstruct
misconstruction
misconstruing
miscontent
miscontentment
miscook
miscopy
miscorrect
miscorrection
miscorrelation
miscounsel

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISCONSTRUE

accrue
congrue
embrue
goat´s-rue
grue
imbrue
meadow rue
not true
ring true
sprue
wall rue

Synonyms and antonyms of misconstrue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MISCONSTRUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «misconstrue» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of misconstrue

Translation of «misconstrue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISCONSTRUE

Find out the translation of misconstrue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of misconstrue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «misconstrue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

误解
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

misconstrue
570 millions of speakers

English

misconstrue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गलत समझें
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يسيء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

искажалось
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

misconstrue
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভুল অর্থ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal interpréter
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Misconstrue
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

misconstrue
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

misconstrue
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misconstrue
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hiểu sai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறாகத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीचा अर्थ लावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tersinden anlamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fraintendono
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

błędnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

викривлялося
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

interpretează greșit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρερμηνεύει
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

misconstrue
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misstolka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misconstrue
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misconstrue

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISCONSTRUE»

The term «misconstrue» is regularly used and occupies the 86.585 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISCONSTRUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «misconstrue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «misconstrue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about misconstrue

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4 QUOTES WITH «MISCONSTRUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word misconstrue.
1
Ernst Lubitsch
I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?
2
Carly Pope
People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.
3
Michael K. Williams
People misconstrue when I say I was a dancer. I was not classically trained. I was a street dancer, and I got to do what I did in the nightclubs of New York City.
4
Stevie Wonder
People can misconstrue closeness for love.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISCONSTRUE»

Discover the use of misconstrue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misconstrue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
While You Are Single: A Guide to Finding the Right Lover
DON'T. MISCONSTRUE. LOVE. FOR. LUST. God made everything, sex inclusive. Therefore, God authored sex, and like everything else He made, He made it good , in fact very good.25 Did I hear an Amen! If God didn't make sex so good, most ...
Adetokunbo O. Adeoye, 2003
2
Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A ...
Confusion, mistake, misunderstanding are all perfectly good words; misconfiision is a word only among those prone to confusion, mistakes, and misunderstanding. misconscrew Misspelling of misconstrue. ° You take a comment about the ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
3
English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order
TO MISCONSTRUE, MISINTERPRET. MISCONSTRUE and MISINTERPRET signify to explain in a wrong way ; but the former respects the sense of one's words or the implicatioi. of one's actions : those who indulge themselves in a light mode ...
George Crabb, 1826
4
Flip Dictionary
... misstate misinterpret: distort, err, misunderstand, miscalculate, misconceive, misconstrue, mistead, pervert misjudge: err, miscalculate, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misthink, overestimate, presume, underestimate mislay : displace, ...
Barbara Kipfer, 2002
5
Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous ...
See CALAMITY. MISCHIEF. See HURT. MISCONSTRUE. MISINTERPRET. The difference is slight between the usages of these terms ; yet MISCONSTRUE (Lat. construere, to construct) seems more commonly employed of things of which the  ...
‎1871
6
English synonymes: Explained in alphabetical order
... the conversation, the songs, the toasts, and the public spirit of the company contribute to hilarity. . l1 . I TO MISCONSTRUE , MISINTERPRET. MISCONSTRUE and MISINTERPRET 896 MIX. signify to explain in a wrong way; but to conduce,
George Crabb, J. H. Hedley, 1839
7
English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
Johnson. miscarriage, v. Failure. miscellany, v. Mixture. mischance, v. Calamity. mischief, v. Evil. mischief, v. Injury. TO misconstrue, misinterpret. MISCONSTRUE and MISINTERPRET signify to explain in a wrong way ; but the former respects ...
George Crabb, 1818
8
Synonymisches Handwörterbuch der englischen Sprache für die ...
The learners of a language will unavoidably misconstrue it at times ; in all languages there are ambiguous expressions, which are liable to misinterpretation. In ev'ry act and turn of life he feels Public calamities or household ills; The judge ...
H. M. Melford, 1841
9
Anna's Inspirational Poems
Misconstrue. A fix-it-yourself structure in a package, with a small package in that one With instructions how to build the structure; it looks like a lot of fun With little screws, bolts, and nuts in a second little bag But after you've finished that ...
Anna Lee Nelson, 2012
10
Elicitation of Preferences
(i) the more demanding the level of measurement in the tasks posed by Jones, the more likely Smith will seek cognitive shortcuts that misconstrue the tasks ( Fischhoff and Cox, 1985; Schkade and Payne, 1994); (ii) the more the judgment tasks ...
Baruch Fischhoff, Charles F. Manski, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISCONSTRUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misconstrue is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Why we go to Pluto
But in our time, we have a tendency to ignore, or evade, or radically misconstrue a fact of human nature: The inner, psychological needs of ... «Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel, Jul 15»
2
Armed Citizens Guarding Magic Valley Recruitment Centers
“Please don't misconstrue why we are out here,” said Ruth House, leader of the Gooding County chapter of III Percent. “We are out here to help. «Twin Falls Times-News, Jul 15»
3
Taylor Swift Slammed On Twitter For Ignoring Wider Feminist And …
"Not only did she response misconstrue what Nikki Minaj said (suggesting it was a woman against woman thing, or a bruised ego on Minaj's ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
4
Political Affiliations of the Millennials Are Up For Grabs
Don't misconstrue that statement; this generation will gladly rally around a movement to raise money to help those in need, but they don't want ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
5
Despite strict budget, midyear cuts could occur, Wichita school …
... the general fund before being allocated. “This is going to be … used by those that want to misconstrue the funding to education,” Allison said. «Wichita Eagle, Jul 15»
6
Forget the Ben Carson line, Chris Christie's fallen below the Carly …
In this case, he singled out the Iowa one. I know you are trying hard to misconstrue what was written but you are not doing a super good job. «NJ.com, Jul 15»
7
Radio Biafra and the Nigerian Dialogue
... critics of the radio station and the contents of its broadcast to misconstrue the challenge which the emergence posits for the future of the polity ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
8
Mawere Business Class: Exchange of value
It is not unusual for political actors to misconstrue their true purpose in the human value chain by calling for economic freedom and seeking to ... «New Zimbabwe.com, Jul 15»
9
Rise of a death squad mayor
... failed to challenge Duterte's affront to the rule of law and instead clucked about how children might misconstrue Duterte's death threat. «Arab News, Jul 15»
10
Self-determination is not secession – Ankio Briggs
... government and international community not to misconstrue the demand of people of the region for self determination as a plot for secession. «Daily Trust, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Misconstrue [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/misconstrue>. May 2024 ».
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