misunderstanding

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She had visited her, pitied her, comforted her; and Algernon remembered that she had looked very keen and pinched about the mouth in alluding to Dahlia; but how she and Edward had managed to arrive at another misunderstanding was a prodigious puzzle to him; and why, if their engagement had snapped, each consented to let Dahlia's marriage

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  1. noun A failure to understand or interpret correctly.
  2. noun A disagreement or quarrel.

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  • Now, you could describe this as a simple misunderstanding -- a strange encounter among humans. —  John Hodgman's brief digression
  • The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the nature of e-books.
  • A further misunderstanding was the result of this want of decision and frankness; repeated interviews and some correspondence took place without bringing matters to a point, and in the meantime the theatrical season passed away. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Airport officials later cleared the group to travel and FBI agents saw the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official told the Post. —  News24
  • FBI agents who characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, an airport official said. —  Google News - Top Stories
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  1. Verbal noun of misunderstand, v.
 

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/mɪsəndərˈstændɪŋ/
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