catachrestic
21distorted — Synonyms and related words: aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark, blemished, bogus,… …
22garbled — Synonyms and related words: affected, aimless, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, beyond one, biased, bogus, brummagem, butchered, castrated, catachrestic, colorable, colored, complex, complicated, cooked, counterfeit, counterfeited,… …
23misread — Synonyms and related words: catachrestic, contort, distort, distorted, do amiss, eisegetical, garble, garbled, get one wrong, get wrong, gloss, misapply, misapprehend, misapprehended, miscall, miscite, misconceive, misconceived, misconduct,… …
24mistaken — Synonyms and related words: all wet, all wrong, amiss, catachrestic, distorted, eisegetical, erring, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, faulty, flawed, garbled, in error, inaccurate, incorrect, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misguided,… …
25misunderstood — Synonyms and related words: catachrestic, despised, disliked, distorted, eisegetical, garbled, lowly, misapprehended, misconceived, misconstrued, misinterpreted, misprized, misread, mistaken, out of favor, perverted, thankless, unappreciated,… …
26perverted — Synonyms and related words: AC DC, abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abroad, abused, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, amoral, amphierotic, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray, at fault, autoerotic, awry, bad, base …
27figurative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Characterized by symbolism and imagery Nouns 1. figurativeness, figure of speech, figurative language, device; metaphor, conceit, euphuism; dead metaphor, mixed metaphor; way of speaking, colloquialism,… …
28metaphoric — (Roget s IV) , modif. Syn. symbolic, symbolical, allegorical, figurative, referential, allusive, comparative, mystical, anagogic, metonymic, poetic, anagogical, contrastive, exegetical, symbolistic, involved, imaginative, mythic, antonomastic,… …
29catachresis — (n.) 1580s, from L. catachresis, from Gk. katakhresis misuse (of a word), from katakhresthai to misuse, from kata down (here with a sense of perversion; see CATA (Cf. cata )) + khresthai to use (see HORTATORY (Cf. hortatory …
30catachresis — [ˌkatə kri:sɪs] noun (plural catachreses si:z) the incorrect use of a word. Derivatives catachrestic kri:stɪk, krɛstɪk adjective Origin C16: from L., from Gk katakhrēsis, from katakhrēsthai misuse …
