misunderstood

Speech parts

1. misunderstood - Adjective

2. misunderstood - Verb

Derived from misunderstand

4. misunderstood - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Misunderstand

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. William James

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. Billie Joe Armstrong

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. Jean Cocteau

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said. Alan Greenspan

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