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Definitions: Misunderstood |
MisunderstoodAdjective1. Wrongly understood; "a misunderstood criticism"; "a misunderstood question". 2. Not given sympathetic understanding; "a sorely misunderstood child". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misunderstood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Crosswords: Misunderstood |
| English words defined with "misunderstood": Misinterpretable ♦ rerun ♦ seem. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "misunderstood": clerk-operator, commmand expression ♦ Mask ♦ Scaffold, Stealing ♦ TELEPHONE CLERK, TELEGRAPH OFFICE ♦ YGMTPO. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "misunderstood": Arriere-ban ♦ Haberdine ♦ marquee, misunderstand. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? (The Palm Beach Story; writing credit: Preston Sturges) I see, i misunderstood. I thought you had another reason (Red Sonja; writing credit: Robert E. Howard; Clive Exton) | |
Lyrics | I've been misunderstood for all of my life (Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon; performing artist: Neil Diamond; writing credit: Neil Diamond) Baby don't let me be misunderstood (NAUGHTY GIRLS; performing artist: Samantha Fox) | |
Clever | Clearly misunderstood (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Misunderstood Coyote Chico (1961) A Misunderstood Boy (1913) | |
Song Titles | DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD (performing artist: SANTA ESMERALDA) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wise women, strong, proud healers, midwives, creators, and builders -- they misunderstood your soul for the gentleness within ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Napoleon Bonaparte | An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | To be great is to be misunderstood. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I misunderstood. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The behavioral symptoms and tics are easily misinterpreted, often causing children with TS to be misunderstood at school, at home, and even in the doctor's office. (references) | |
Economic History | Afghanistan | Decrees abolishing usury, forcing changes in marriage customs, and pushing through an ill-conceived land reform were particularly misunderstood virtually all Afghans. (references) |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Some peace commission members initially reported that soldiers, rural police, and local residents sometimes misunderstood their efforts at advocacy on behalf of jailed criminals, interpreting them as challenges to law enforcement officials' authority. (references) |
Travel | Denmark | However, in some cases American forms of greeting can be misunderstood. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Soon after the passage of the act of the last session authorizing the establishment of a district and port of entry on the waters of the Mobile we learnt that its object was misunderstood on the part of Spain. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Misunderstood" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 79.84% of the time. "Misunderstood" is used about 258 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 79.84% | 206 | 21,208 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.73% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.88% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.55% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 258 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "misunderstood": m-m-misunderstood, much-misunderstood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "misunderstood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيء الفهم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 误会 (misconstrue, Misconstrued, Misconstruing, misunderstand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mal compris, incompris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | missverstand (misapprehended). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρεξηγημένοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | malinterpretato, inteso male, incompreso (not understood, unappreciated), frainteso, equivocato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 오해하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nagh vel toiggit dy kiart. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isunderstoodmay atrito (abrasion, attrition, fret, friction, rub, rubbing). (various references) trecut şi participiu trecut de la misunderstand, neînţeles (secret). (various references) от misunderstand, понимать неправильно.....неправильно понятый/. (various references) pret y pp de misunderstand, insuficientemente estimado, incomprendido. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Misunderstood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: missunderstood, misundersood. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misunderstood" (pronounced mi'sunderstuh"d) |
| 7 | -n d er s t uh" d | understood. |
| 4 | -s t uh" d | stood, withstood. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: ostensorium. | |
-3 letters: dismounted, missounded, modernists, monestrous, serotinous, understood. | |
-4 letters: demonists, demotions, diestrous, diestrums, dismounts, disrooted, doomsters, medusoids, mesotrons, misrouted, misroutes, missorted, modernist, moistures, monitored, monodists, monstrous, moodiness, moondusts, moonrises, motioners, motorised, motorises, muddiness, mudstones, outridden, outsiders, outsnored, outsnores, remotions, roominess, ruddiness, rudiments, sensorium, sodomites, sourdines, tournedos, undermost. | |
-5 letters: demonist, demotion, demounts, dermoids, desirous, desmoids. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 73 75 6E 64 65 72 73 74 6F 6F 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01110011 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i s u n d e r s t o o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 0073 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072 0073 0074 006F 006F 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47758587807071848586818170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabic, арабский, árabe |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, 중국, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, chino |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, "랑스, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, 독일, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, кореец, корейский, coreano |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugués |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, rumeno, 루마니아, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumano |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, 스페인, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Speeches 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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