Antonyms of noun misconstruction

1 of 2 senses of misconstruction

Sense 2
misconstruction -- (an ungrammatical constituent)
       Antonym of construction (Sense 2)
      => construction, grammatical construction, expression -- (a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun misconstruction

2 senses of misconstruction

Sense 1
misconstrual, misconstruction -- (a kind of misinterpretation resulting from putting a wrong construction on words or actions (often deliberately))
       => misinterpretation, misunderstanding, mistaking -- (putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning")

Sense 2
misconstruction -- (an ungrammatical constituent)
       => constituent, grammatical constituent -- ((grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction)

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