misperceive

[ mis-per-seev ]

verb (used with object)

, mis·per·ceived, mis·per·ceiv·ing.

1. to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.

Other Words From

• mis·per·cep·tion [mis-per-, sep, -sh, uh, n], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of misperceive¹

First recorded in 1920–25; mis- ¹ + perceive

Example Sentences

“Right from the get-go in New England, people who were hunting for deer misperceived them as competitors,” Treves said.

From Seattle Times

I feel aligned with him in terms of experiencing the pressures from the outside that misperceive his interior life and what he considers to be his own authentic self.

From Los Angeles Times

“She initially denied some of the allegations and then stated she may have made the comments, but they had been misperceived.”

From Los Angeles Times

Synthetic data, they wrote, ends up “polluting the training set of the next generation of models; being trained on polluted data, they then misperceive reality.”

From New York Times

An in-flight emergency is a critical point in time where the flight crew must trust their training, knowledge and instincts … without having to wonder how their actions might be misperceived, misconstrued and second guessed.

From Seattle Times