Meaning of MISCONSTRUCTION
Pronunciation: | | `miskun'strukshun
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- [n] an ungrammatical constituent
- [n] a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately)
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| Synonyms: | | misconstrual |
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| Antonyms: | | construction, expression, grammatical construction | |
| See Also: | | constituent, grammatical constituent, misinterpretation, mistaking, misunderstanding | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Mis`con*struc"tion\, n.
Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
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| Related Terms: | | aberrancy, aberration, abuse of terms, antiphrasis, barbarism, catachresis, coloring, confabulation, contorting, corruption, defectiveness, delusion, deviancy, distortion, eisegesis, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, error in judgment, exaggeration, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falseness, falsification, falsifying, falsity, fault, faultiness, flaw, flawedness, garbling, gloss, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, infelicity, injudiciousness, malapropism, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, miscalculation, miscitation, miscoloring, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misdirection, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misrepresentation, missaying, misstatement, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misusage, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, peccancy, perjury, perversion, poor judgment, prevarication, self-contradiction, sin, sinfulness, skewed judgment, slanting, solecism, squeezing, straining, torturing, twisting, ungrammaticism, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongness |
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