What's the difference between misapprehend and misunderstood?
Misapprehend
Definition:
(v. t.) To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are constantly misapprehending the nature of violence,” he said .
Misunderstood
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Misunderstand
Example Sentences:
(1) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(2) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(3) I wouldn’t want to sign up.” • • • All of this feeds into what one suspects are the author’s lifelong feelings of being misunderstood.
(4) But, if the prime minister believed Morgan would simply be a more emollient version of her predecessor – or as one of her close allies put it, “if they thought she would just be a Stepford minister” – he had misunderstood the 41-year-old MP for Loughborough.
(5) This anarchic spirit was often misunderstood by readers, many of whom mistook her Catholic chic, her militantly anti-humanist fictional aesthetic and her formal elegance for the rightwing misanthropy of an Evelyn Waugh.
(6) Particular stress is laid on the occasionally misunderstood importance of the part played by continuous hypertension.
(7) We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife.” Harper argues that the RSPB has been misunderstood, pointing out that it has always been neutral on the ethics of shooting birds.
(8) It’s a policy that comes straight out of the last BNP manifesto and does not reflect British values.” Ukip sources said Reckless had been wrongfooted in the debate and misunderstood the premise of the question, as Ukip would not ask any EU migrants who were in the country legally to leave.
(9) The reasons for this are many, but, most significantly, , some panels and commissioners have fundamentally misunderstood what panels are there for.
(10) You know,' says Weir, 'it all gets very annoying, being misunderstood.'
(11) Syndromology is a misunderstood specialty that has much to contribute to the understanding of cranio-facial biology in general and the study of craniofacial anomalies in particular.
(12) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
(13) "The blast was huge enough to kick up dust which the pilot probably misunderstood as rocket fire," he said, adding that Pakistani army troops carried out a search operation and spoke to witnesses on the ground, none of whom reported a rocket attack.
(14) The role of the family physician in the identification and management of the hearing-impaired child is often misunderstood.
(15) They are China's most beleaguered ethnic group – feared, misunderstood and economically marginalised.
(16) It was so important to me, and so misunderstood by society.
(17) It has been frustrating, he says, when he has tried to bust out of his genre and been largely dismissed or misunderstood – primarily with his novel Needful Things , a satire of Reagan-era materialism that baffled the critics.
(18) However, legislation and rules of provision's patronage are complex and appear misunderstood with themselves who regularly use them in their practice.
(19) Shortly before news of the cabinet order spread, a justice ministry official told the Guardian that western embassies had simply "misunderstood" the law, and that he expected the confusion would be resolved soon and without any changes needed.
(20) As compared with the controls, women with major depression reported significantly more often frequent corporal punishment, poor relationship with mother, having been misunderstood by parents, and unhappy childhood.