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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
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they misperceive ... he / she / it misperceives
Past simple: misperceived
Past participle: misperceived
-ing form: misperceiving
... he / she / it misperceives Past simple: misperceived
Past participle: misperceived
-ing form: misperceiving
Sense 1
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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