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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (I) Formation of Ideas |
| Section V. Results of Reasoning |
| 481. Misjudgment. |
| NOUN: | MISJUDGMENT, obliquity of judgment, warped judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception (error) [See Error]; hasty conclusion. PRECONCEPTION, prejudgment, prejudication [rare], prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention [Gallicism], predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, presentiment, foreboding; fixed idea; idée fixe [F.], obsession, preconceived idea, mentis gratissimus error [L.]; fool’s paradise. PARTISANSHIP, esprit de corps [F.], party spirit, mob spirit, class prejudice, class consciousness, race prejudice, provincialism, clannishness, prestige. QUIRK, shift, quibble, equivocation, evasion, subterfuge. BIAS, warp, twist; hobby, whim, craze, fad, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, blind spot, mote in the eye. one-sided -, partial -, narrow -, confined -, superficial- -views, - ideas, - conceptions, - notions; purblindness, entêtement [F.]; narrow mind; bigotry (obstinacy) [See Obstinacy]; odium theologicum [L.]; pedantry; hypercriticism. DOCTRINAIRE (positive) [See Certainty]. |
| VERB: | MISJUDGE, misestimate, misesteem, misthink, misconjecture, misconceive (error) [See Error]; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate, misreckon, miscompute. overestimate [See Overestimation]; underestimate [See Underestimation]. PREJUDGE, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate [rare], dogmatize; have a bias &c. n.; have only one idea; jurare in verba magistri [L.], run away with the notion; jump -, rush- to a conclusion; go off half-cocked [colloq.]; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one’s nose; dare pondus fumo [L.]; get the wrong sow by the ear (blunder) [See Unskillfulness]. BIAS, warp, twist; give a -bias, - twist; prejudice, prepossess. |
| ADJECTIVE: | MISJUDGING &c. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced, prepossessed; jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial. NARROW, narrow-minded, narrow-souled; provincial, parochial, insular; mean-spirited; confined, illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entêté [F.], positive, dogmatic, dictatorial; pragmatic or pragmatical, egotistical, conceited; opinioned, opinionated, opinionate [rare], opinionative [rare], opinative [obs.], opiniative [obs.]; self-opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an opinion, opiniâtre [F.]; bigoted (obstinate) [See Obstinacy]; crotchety, fussy, impracticable; unreasonable, stupid [See Imbecility. Folly]; credulous [See Credulity]; warped. MISJUDGED &c. v. |
| ADVERB: | ex parte [L.]. |
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