All misunderstanding synonyms
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M m noun misunderstanding
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- misinterpretation — An instance of misinterpreting.
- confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
- misjudgment — An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
- misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
- mix-up — a confused state of things; muddle; tangle.
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- rift — an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- squabble — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- clash — When people clash, they fight, argue, or disagree with each other.
- discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
- disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
- dissension — strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
- feud — fee (def 4).
- difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
- conflict — Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
- quarrel — a square-headed bolt or arrow, formerly used with a crossbow.
- debate — A debate is a discussion about a subject on which people have different views.
- spat — a pointed rod or bar for thrusting through and holding meat that is to be cooked before or over a fire.
- row — record
- set-to — a usually brief, sharp fight or argument.
- delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
- misapprehension — misunderstanding.
- misconstruction — wrong construction; misinterpretation: to put a misconstruction upon an action.
- confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- fuss — an excessive display of anxious attention or activity; needless or useless bustle: They made a fuss over the new baby.
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- run-in — a quarrel; argument.
- blowup — an explosion
- break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- variance — the state, quality, or fact of being variable, divergent, different, or anomalous.
- rupture — the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
- falling-out — a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.
- error — A mistake.
- miscalculation — An act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgment.
- misreckoning — Present participle of misreckon.
- fight — a battle or combat.
- dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
adjective misunderstanding
- unpolitic — impolitic.
- tactless — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
- mistaken — wrongly conceived, held, or done: a mistaken antagonism.
- all wet — wrong; mistaken
- undiplomatic — of, relating to, or engaged in diplomacy: diplomatic officials.
- wrong number — a call made to a number other than the one intended. the number or person reached through such a call.
- untactful — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.