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It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
Kevin Spacey

Meaning of "misperceive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISPERCEIVE

misperceive  [ˌmɪspəˈsiːv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISPERCEIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Misperceive 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 misperceive in English.

WHAT DOES MISPERCEIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of misperceive in the English dictionary

The definition of misperceive in the dictionary is to perceive wrongly, to misunderstand.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MISPERCEIVE

PRESENT

Present
I misperceive
you misperceive
he/she/it misperceives
we misperceive
you misperceive
they misperceive
Present continuous
I am misperceiving
you are misperceiving
he/she/it is misperceiving
we are misperceiving
you are misperceiving
they are misperceiving
Present perfect
I have misperceived
you have misperceived
he/she/it has misperceived
we have misperceived
you have misperceived
they have misperceived
Present perfect continuous
I have been misperceiving
you have been misperceiving
he/she/it has been misperceiving
we have been misperceiving
you have been misperceiving
they have been misperceiving
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 misperceived
you misperceived
he/she/it misperceived
we misperceived
you misperceived
they misperceived
Past continuous
I was misperceiving
you were misperceiving
he/she/it was misperceiving
we were misperceiving
you were misperceiving
they were misperceiving
Past perfect
I had misperceived
you had misperceived
he/she/it had misperceived
we had misperceived
you had misperceived
they had misperceived
Past perfect continuous
I had been misperceiving
you had been misperceiving
he/she/it had been misperceiving
we had been misperceiving
you had been misperceiving
they had been misperceiving
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you misperceive
we let´s misperceive
you misperceive
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to misperceive
Past participle
misperceived
Present Participle
misperceiving
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 MISPERCEIVE


achieve
əˈtʃiːv
apperceive
ˌæpəˈsiːv
believe
bɪˈliːv
breve
briːv
conceive
kənˈsiːv
deceive
dɪˈsiːv
eve
iːv
half-sleeve
ˈhɑːfˌsliːv
leave
liːv
misconceive
ˌmɪskənˈsiːv
parasceve
ˈpærəˌsiːv
perceive
pəˈsiːv
preconceive
ˌpriːkənˈsiːv
receive
rɪˈsiːv
reconceive
ˌriːkənˈsiːv
retrieve
rɪˈtriːv
sleeve
sliːv
undeceive
ˌʌndɪˈsiːv
vive
viːv
we´ve
wiːv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISPERCEIVE

mispaint
misparse
mispen
misperception
mispersuade
mispersuasion
misphrase
mispickel
misplace
misplaced
misplaced modifier
misplacement
misplant
misplay
misplead
mispleading
misplease
mispoint
misposition
mispraise

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISPERCEIVE

active
alive
alternative
archive
arrive
automotive
competitive
comprehensive
cooperative
creative
drive
effective
exclusive
executive
expensive
extensive
five
give
in the negative
reive

Synonyms and antonyms of misperceive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «misperceive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISPERCEIVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

misperceive
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

misperceive
570 millions of speakers

English

misperceive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

misperceive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

misperceive
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неверно воспринимают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

misperceive
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

misperceive
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal percevoir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Salah faham
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

misperceive
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誤解する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

misperceive
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Misperceive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

misperceive
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

misperceive
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गैरसमज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yanlış anlamalarına
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

percezioni errate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

misperceive
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невірно сприймають
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

misperceive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιλαμβανόμαστε σωστά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

misperceive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

misperceive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

misperceive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of misperceive

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISPERCEIVE»

The term «misperceive» is normally little used and occupies the 139.528 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISPERCEIVE» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «MISPERCEIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word misperceive.
1
Kevin Spacey
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISPERCEIVE»

Discover the use of misperceive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to misperceive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Encyclopedia of Ethics: P-W
For example, just as one can misperceive that a stick partly in the water is crooked rather than straight, one can misperceive that a friend is angry when he is simply perplexed. More importantly, we can misperceive ourselves because of certain ...
Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, 2001
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Encyclopedia of Ethics
For example, just as one can misperceive that a stick partly in the water is crooked rather than straight, one can misperceive that a friend is angry when he is simply perplexed. More importantly, we can misperceive ourselves because of certain ...
Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, 2013
3
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
This means that if customers do not misperceive risks, the warranty that is sold will be the one that results in the lowest true full price and therefore is socially best. For example, if buyers of commercial freezers have good knowledge of the risks ...
Steven Shavell, 2009
4
Through a Mirror, Brightly
Raymond Comeau. that you never misperceive and always see truly that you never misperceive and always see truly that you never misperceive and always see truly that you never misperceive and always see truly that you never misperceive ...
Raymond Comeau, 2001
5
Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable
Professionals. Misperceive. Risk. While end users tend to underestimate the risks of a desirable activity or technology, security professionals sometimes display the opposite tendency. We focus obsessively on the information risk associated ...
Malcolm Harkins, 2012
6
Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About
Men who endorse rape-supportive beliefs are especially likely to misperceive women's friendliness as sexual interest (Abbey & Harnish, 1995; Vrij & Kirby, 2002; Willand & Pollard, 2003). A recent review concluded that several situational ...
Richard McAnulty, 2012
7
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Traditionally, there are taken to be five senses: sight, touch, hearing, smell and taste. Philosophical debate about perception is ancient. Much debate focuses on the contrast between appearance and reality. We can misperceive objects and be ...
‎2000
8
Locke
Indeed it can be quite misleading as to its object's real character, and yet still be ' of' that object. One way of perceiving things is to misperceive them, a possibility which supplies an analogue to the most straightforward case of falsity. Roughly ...
Michael Ayers, 1993
9
Looking West
The perplexed tourists of this joke occupy the position of eternally unconsummated visual desire. They see vividly their object of desire and simultaneously misrecognize it. In fact, they misperceive it because of its vividness. And this object, the ...
John Darwin Dorst, 1999
10
Locke-Arg Philosophers
Indeed it can be quite misleading as to its object's real character, and yet still be ' of' that object. One way of perceiving things is to misperceive them, a possibility which supplies an analogue to the most straightforward case of falsity. Roughly ...
Michael Ayers, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISPERCEIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term misperceive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Do You Recognize if Your Child is Overweight?
A recent study showed that this tendency to misperceive weight status by parents of obese preschool children has increased over the past two ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
What are Phantom Phone Vibrations?
You'll be a little less attentive to one specific area and I think you're probably a little less likely to experience or misperceive the phantom vibration," said Dr. Scott ... «YourErie, Jul 15»
3
Do Americans Understand Long-Term Care?
Results from a new national telephone survey found that “Americans continue to misperceive [the] cost and risk of needing long-term care,” said ... «Health Affairs, Jul 15»
4
Phantom Phone Vibrations
You'll be a little less attentive to one specific area and I think you're probably a little less likely to experience or misperceive the phantom ... «WJHG-TV, Jul 15»
5
Life during the culture wars
Those who are rallied - rather than doing the rallying - may thus come to misperceive named individuals not only as their opponents but as ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
6
Social aspects of impression management. By Mohammad Akmal …
But at times human judgment in the hands of its frailty tends to misperceive the 'unrepresentative or representative expressions' and the truest love resting in the ... «Pakistan Christian Post, Jul 15»
7
Most US Smartphone Owners Check Phone at Least Hourly Featured
It's possible that Americans either misperceive what others are doing, or that they feel it is a socially undesirable behavior and therefore want to ... «The FINANCIAL, Jul 15»
8
Poll: Smartphone users stay connected entire waking life
"It's possible that Americans either misperceive what others are doing, or that they feel it is a socially undesirable behavior and therefore want ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
9
Overweight U.S. women need better pre-pregnancy counseling
“Overweight women trying to conceive largely misperceive their weight, which is concerning because they may not try to adopt healthier ... «PhillyVoice.com, Jul 15»
10
25 things you never knew about Alice In Wonderland to mark its …
... be changing size, and Alice In Wonderland-like syndrome (AWLS), where people misperceive the size and distance of objects around them. «Metro, Jul 15»

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