noun
definition
An instance of reading wrongly.
verb
definition
To read wrongly, normally by accident; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
Examples of misread in a Sentence
This appears gravely to misread history.
Claudia put on a pout, thinking she had misread Jackson's intentions for her.
What bothered Dean most was his misread of Edith Shipton.
Obviously he had forgotten it was there and he thought she had misread his intent.
They proved that he misread events and misunderstood his own position.
But this is just what the despatch does not state verbally and precisely, and accordingly Grouchy, like Ney on the 16th and 17th, misread it.
Obviously he had reconsidered his intentions toward her - or had she misread them from the start?
It is clear, however that he did not share the "passion" of his colleagues for "peace with honour," clear also that he wholly misread the intentions of the European powers in the event of war.
This is clear when the first letter to Ney is studied with the orders, as it was meant to be; but Ney in the heat of action misread the later instructions.
The explanation is in most cases simply an assumption of the point at issue; some of the names have been misread; others are undoubtedly the names of Jews.
But in all probability these dates were only one development of those speculations in the region of numbers to which Gnosticism was so prone; and in any case to look for genuine traditions among Egyptian Gnostics, or even in the church of Alexandria, would be to misread the history of Christianity in the 2nd century.
The pope and his French ally, Charles IV., whom it was proposed to seat upon the German throne, had completely misread the signs of the times, and their schemes met with very little favor in Germany.
Further, owing to the vast number of signs employed, to prevent confusion of one with another in rapid writing they were generally provided with phonetic complements, a group being less easily misread than a single letter.
This is because last year he misread an article about faster refresh rates curing headaches.
With reading they may be hesitant and often misread words and with writing they may have erratic spelling and tendency to reverse letters.
Be sure the player has n't misread the key signature.
I have not misread the pointer of the scales to cheat the buyer.
Mary Margaret had obviously misread the weather and had stoked up a roaring fire.
There is however no precedent of neutralization of any such area of the high sea, and international rivers, ocean canals and neutralized states are obviously no criterion in discussing a proposal to neutralize a strip of the ocean, which may be defined accurately enough on the map and which skilful navigators could approximately determine, but which might be violated without any practical means of detection by a belligerent commander whenever he misread, or it suited him to misread, his bearings.
But owing to the ambiguity of a minor word in the thirtieth verse, the sequel is commonly misread.
Inexperienced players often misread the table and get caught with their cards down, so to speak.
It is all in the intention, and as Fivestar mentions, sometimes the intentions can be misread.
This results in words being misinterpreted or a person's sentiment misread and therefore quite innocuous comments can become problematic.
Also, the article was seen by the great and good of Lynton, and, as I had predicted, was completely misread.