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What does misunderstood mean?

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Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of misunderstand
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Depression and other mental illnesses are terribly misunderstood, Beardslee explained.
As Schoenberg said, atonality is rejected not because it is ugly, but because it is misunderstood.
Despite their often misunderstood appearance, these were teens to be immensely proud of, not menaced by or feared.
We see a renewed effort to commemorate the fallen on Remembrance Day and the laying of that misunderstood poppy wreath.
Most people were befuddled by or misunderstood Full Metal Jacket and had misapprehended The Shining.
But Romantics, and modernists after them, needed to believe that genius in its own time is always neglected, misunderstood, etc.

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