miss the point

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Definition of miss the point words

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

misread — Read (a piece of text) wrongly.
misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.

construe — If something is construed in a particular way, its nature or meaning is interpreted in that way.
interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
understand — to perceive the meaning of; grasp the idea of; comprehend: to understand Spanish; I didn't understand your question.
succeed — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
comprehend — If you cannot comprehend something, you cannot understand it.

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