misread

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to read words, figures, or signs incorrectly

   I misread the scale and recorded twelve instead of twenty.

2. 2
   verb

   to understand or interpret a person, situation, or meaning incorrectly

   She misread his silence as agreement.

3. 3
   noun

   an incorrect reading or interpretation

   The forecast was a serious misread of the available data.

From Middle English misreden, continuing Old English misrǣdan ("to advise or interpret wrongly"), from mis- ("wrongly") + read. The present-tense verb is pronounced like read in I read daily; its past form is pronounced like red.

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