What's the difference between mistaken and misunderstood?

Mistaken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Mistake
  • (p.a.) Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken.
  • (p.a.) Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
  • (2) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
  • (3) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (4) Generalized reticuloendothelial hyperplasia associated with heavy-chain disease is a poorly recognized complication associated with rheumatoid arthritis and may be mistaken for underlying sepsis in these patients.
  • (5) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.
  • (6) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
  • (7) A fetus may survive an intentional interference with its intrauterine environment (1) if gestational age is mistaken and the procedure of induced abortion does not kill the fetus, (2) if a change of heart takes place after abortifacient drugs are taken and the abortion does not proceed, and (3) if a high-multiple pregnancy is reduced to a singleton or a twin pregnancy to improve the likelihood that the remaining fetuses will reach viability.
  • (8) I was mistaken for Prince once in Africa when I had a moustache.
  • (9) Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen is an unusual lesion often mistaken preoperatively for other masses.
  • (10) Reports of mistaken administration of thrombolytic therapy to patients with pericarditis or aortic dissection, other conditions that may be electrocardiographically mimic MI, underscore the potential for error.
  • (11) Shay Given could have been mistaken for just another Irish tourist on the Algarve until he was forced to work just after the half-hour, saving a couple of long-range strikes by Liam Walker.
  • (12) In her first major policy intervention, she said on Tuesday that Labour needed to reset its relationship with business , adding that Miliband’s divisional rhetoric of “predators and producers” was mistaken.
  • (13) But blandness in public should not be mistaken for blandness of character, and there are signs that she is beginning to emerge from the passive role she has been playing.
  • (14) Based on this evaluation patients were placed into three groups: 23 patients were considered to have or likely to have Progressive Post-Polio Muscular Atrophy (PPPMA); 17 patients were considered to have other post-polio sequelae; and two patients had problems unrelated to a past history of polio but mistaken for post-polio sequelae.
  • (15) As the authors rightly point out, much of the blame for the failure of directors to act is their mistaken view that maximising shareholder value is a company’s legal obligation or director’s fiduciary responsibility.
  • (16) Pakistani officials have repeatedly claimed their men were deliberately attacked, saying that it was impossible that they were mistaken for insurgents.
  • (17) Fixed values for dose per film were mistakenly assumed by UNSCEAR (1972) and used by it and others when deriving risk co-efficients.
  • (18) If these precautions were not taken, radical adducts were generated ex vivo and could be mistaken for radical adducts generated in vivo and excreted into the bile.
  • (19) "There's this mistaken idea we were just prancing about in platform shoes and bare bums to go against the grain.
  • (20) A case of tinea of the pinna, mistaken for chondritis, is presented.

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.

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