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misunderstood

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mis·un·der·stood  (msn-dr-std)
v.
Past tense and past participle of misunderstand.
adj.
1. Incorrectly understood or interpreted.
2. Not appreciated or given sympathetic understanding: a sorely misunderstood child.
misunderstood
Adjective
not properly or sympathetically understood: a misunderstood adolescent
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Adj.1.misunderstood - wrongly understood; "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question"
ununderstood - not understood; "should not tamely submit to the unpredictable and ununderstood cycles of wars"- Psychiatry
misunderstood
adjective misjudged, misinterpreted, misread, misconstrued, unrecognized, misheard, unappreciated
Translations
Spanish misunderstood [mɪsʌndəˈstud] pt, pp of misunderstand
adj [person] → incomprendido
French misunderstood [mɪsʌndəˈstud] pt, pp of misunderstand
adj [person] → incompris(e)
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He evidently quite misunderstood, and apparently intentionally misunderstood, the conditions upon which the land had been given to him.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
And when we grow old enough to look back upon those times, although we may remember the pain of them, we can see that sometimes they came from our own fault, it was not that we were misunderstood so much as that we were misunderstanding.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
I have entirely misunderstood Lady Susan, and was on the point of leaving the house under a false impression of her conduct.
Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context
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