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presume
To take for granted that something is true or factual; make a supposition.
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  1. To take for granted that something is true or factual; make a supposition.
  2. To venture without authority or permission; dare:
  3. To take upon oneself without permission or authority; dare (to say or do something); venture
prejudge
To judge before considering the evidence
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  1. To judge before considering the evidence
  2. To judge beforehand without possessing adequate evidence.
suppose
To imagine; conjecture.
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  1. To imagine; conjecture.
  2. To consider to be probable or likely:
  3. To assume to be true or real for the sake of argument or explanation:
presuppose
To suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted
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  1. To suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted
  2. To require or involve necessarily as an antecedent condition:
  3. To believe or suppose in advance:
misapprehend
To apprehend incorrectly; misunderstand.
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  1. To apprehend incorrectly; misunderstand.
  2. To interpret incorrectly; to misunderstand.
  3. To fail to apprehend correctly; misunderstand
miss
To fail to meet, reach, attain, catch, accomplish, see, hear, perceive, understand, etc.
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  1. To fail to meet, reach, attain, catch, accomplish, see, hear, perceive, understand, etc.
  2. To be unsuccessful; fail:
  3. To fail to benefit from; let slip:
miscalculate
To calculate incorrectly; miscount or misjudge
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  1. To calculate incorrectly; miscount or misjudge
  2. To count or estimate incorrectly.
misconceive
To misunderstand
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  1. To misunderstand
  2. To interpret incorrectly; misunderstand.
  3. To conceive wrongly; interpret incorrectly; misunderstand
misthink
To have a bad opinion of
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  1. To have a bad opinion of
  2. (Obsolete) To have sinful thoughts.
  3. (Obsolete) To think wrongly.
misconstrue
To construe wrongly; misinterpret or misunderstand
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  1. To construe wrongly; misinterpret or misunderstand
  2. To mistake the meaning of; misinterpret.
  3. To interpret erroneously, to understand incorrectly; to misunderstand.
overestimate
To set too high an estimate on or for
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  1. To set too high an estimate on or for
  2. To estimate too highly.
  3. To judge too highly
underestimate
To make too low an estimate of the quantity, degree, or worth of:
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  1. To make too low an estimate of the quantity, degree, or worth of:
  2. To perceive (someone or something) as having a lower value, quantity, worth etc. than what it actually has.
  3. To consider (someone) to be less capable or effective than is actually the case:
dogmatize
To express oneself dogmatically in writing or speech.
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  1. To express oneself dogmatically in writing or speech.
  2. To treat something as dogma
  3. (Intransitive) To speak or write dogmatically
bark-up-the-wrong-tree
(Idiomatic) To do, believe, or pursue something wrong or inappropriate; to take the wrong approach; to follow a false lead; to blame or rebuke the wrong person.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To do, believe, or pursue something wrong or inappropriate; to take the wrong approach; to follow a false lead; to blame or rebuke the wrong person.
misestimate
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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  1. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
  2. To estimate incorrectly.
miscalculate
To count or estimate incorrectly.
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  1. To count or estimate incorrectly.
  2. To calculate incorrectly; miscount or misjudge
misestimate
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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  1. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
  2. To estimate erroneously.
misreckon
To engage in incorrect reckoning or miscalculation.
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  1. To engage in incorrect reckoning or miscalculation.
  2. To reckon or calculate incorrectly
  3. To reckon incorrectly; miscalculate.
Find another word for misjudge. In this page you can discover 34 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for misjudge, like: presume, prejudge, suppose, presuppose, misapprehend, be partial, be overcritical, be unfair, be one-sided, be misled and come to a hasty conclusion.

Sentence Examples

  • While the physical symptoms of nicotine withdrawal may be intense, do not misjudge how you feel.

  • misjudge the situation.

  • It's not hard to misjudge out there, especially a rank beginner like Shipton, doing it alone.

  • misjudge badly the difficulty in going on strike.

  • Paley displays little or no spirituality of feeling; but this is a matter in which one age is apt to misjudge another, and Paley was at least practically benevolent and conscientiously attentive to his parish duties.

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