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MISPERCEIVE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does misperceive mean?

• MISPERCEIVE (verb)
The verb MISPERCEIVE has 1 sense:

1. perceive incorrectly

Familiarity information: MISPERCEIVE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MISPERCEIVE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Perceive incorrectly

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "misperceive" is one way to...):

comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "misperceive"):

see double (see things as if they were there twice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

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