Foundation level · Year 4 · free
misread
verb · Say it: mis-REED
What it means
Foundationto read or understand something wrongly
I misread the timetable and arrived at the station an hour early.
Similar and opposite words
Synonyms (similar meaning)
- misinterpret
- misunderstand
More examples
- Grace misread the question, so she answered about rivers instead of mountains.
Where the word comes from
From the prefix 'mis', meaning wrongly, joined with 'read'.
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