otherwise interpreted
Definitions
Understood or construed in a different way or from a different perspective.
Given an alternative meaning or explanation than the one previously stated.
Examples
The ambiguous clause in the contract could be otherwise interpreted by the opposing legal team.
His silence was otherwise interpreted as an admission of guilt by those who did not know him well.
Synonyms
differently construed alternatively understood viewed from another perspective subject to different interpretation read in another way
Antonyms
uniformly understood universally accepted interpreted identically consistently defined unambiguously construed