construed
Read a certain way
Construed is the past tense of construe, meaning to interpret or understand something in a particular way.
The word often appears when meaning is ambiguous or contested: Her silence was construed as agreement.
Legal and formal contexts favor construe: The court construed the statute narrowly.
To misconstrue is to interpret wrongly.
Grasped the meaning
- perceivedBecame aware of
- readComprehend written language
- graspedClutched or understood
- comprehendedMentally absorbed meaning
discerned · apprehended · fathomed · taken · viewed · seen · regarded · deciphered
Reached by reasoning
- surmisedConcluded without proof
- assumedTaken as true
- presumedBelieved without certainty
- extrapolatedInferred beyond known data
implied · gathered · reasoned · concluded · divined · conjectured · hypothesized · postulated
Understood incorrectly
- misreadInterpret text incorrectly
- misunderstoodIncorrectly comprehended
- mistakenIncorrectly understood or believed
- misconceivedPoorly thought through
misapprehended · misjudged · confused · distorted · twisted · skewed · garbled · warped
understood
Grasped the meaning
comprehended · discerned · apprehended · fathomed · taken · viewed · seen · regarded · deciphered · translated
deduced
Reached by reasoning
extrapolated · implied · gathered · reasoned · concluded · divined · conjectured · hypothesized · postulated · speculated
misinterpreted
Understood incorrectly
- misreadInterpret text incorrectly
- misunderstoodIncorrectly comprehended
- mistakenIncorrectly understood or believed
misconceived · misapprehended · misjudged · confused · distorted · twisted · skewed · garbled · warped · muddled
- interpretedtranslated, explained, decoded, understood, read
construedmisconstrued
Incorrectly understood another's meaning
misunderstood · misinterpreted · confused · obscured · misread
construedtaken literally
taken at face value · transcribed · recorded · copied · reproduced
construedignored
Purposely not noticed
overlooked · disregarded · taken literally · unexamined · unanalyzed
- under constructionCurrently being made
- construction paperSturdy colored sheets for projects
- construction siteWhere edifices get erected
- construction workerOne who erects structures
- construction permitApproval to erect structures
- construction zoneArea under active building
construction, reconstruct, construe, misconstrue, constructor, deconstruct, deconstruction, construes, construing