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Synonyms for misunderstood
ˌmɪs ʌn dərˈstʊdmis·un·der·stood

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  1. misunderstoodadjective

    wrongly understood

    "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question"

    Antonyms:
    understood

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  1. List of paraphrases for "misunderstood":

    misinterpreted, misconstrued, alienated

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#22340misunderstood
#36720alienated
#51673misinterpreted
#93733misconstrued

How to use misunderstood in a sentence?

  1. S.A. Quinox:

    And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude than to be gravely misunderstood.

  2. Richard Spencers:

    They think they have shut this down, but they haven't, i will give a speech on their campus. It is a public place. I think Auburn University is naive and has totally misunderstood who I am if they think that I am going to politely back out of this. I will be there 100 percent.

  3. Richard Milhous Nixon:

    No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

  4. Aleister Crowley:

    If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

  5. Henry Louis Mencken:

    But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.


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