misapprehension
misapprehension noun: a failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception, or misunderstanding.
Noun
misapprehension (countable and uncountable, plural misapprehensions)
- A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception, or misunderstanding.
- Near-synonyms: misperception, miscomprehension
- They had thought it obsolete, but, were relieved of this misapprehension by Yule’s friend Major Trotter.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 57
- Synonyms:
- misperception, miscomprehension, wrong number
misapprehension meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
misapprehension in Tamil
- தவறான எண்ணம், தவறான கருத்து
misapprehension in Urdu
- بھول, غلط فہمی, خطا
misapprehension in Bengali
- ভুল ধারণা
misapprehension in Malayalam
- misapprehension
- ഭ്രമം bhramaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- misapprehension in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪುಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ, ತಪ್ಪೆಣಿಕೆ, ತಪ್ಪು ಕಲ್ಪನೆ, ತಪ್ಪು ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ
Synonyms of misapprehension
Forms of misapprehension
| plural | misapprehensions |
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Origin of misapprehension
From mis- + apprehension.
Questions about misapprehension
- What does misapprehension mean?
- Misapprehension means a failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception, or misunderstanding.
- What is misapprehension in Tamil?
- Misapprehension in Tamil is தவறான எண்ணம், தவறான கருத்து. See Misapprehension meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is misapprehension?
- Misapprehension is a noun.
- What is the plural of misapprehension?
- The plural of misapprehension is misapprehensions.
Words near misapprehension in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: misapprehension (page history and authors); misapprehension (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misapprehension (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misapprehension (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഭ്രമം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); misapprehension (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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