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adjective
- 1. giving the wrong idea or impression: "your article contains a number of misleading statements"
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MISLEADING definition: 1. causing someone to believe something that is not true: 2. causing someone to believe something…. Learn more.
Misleading definition: deceptive; tending to mislead. . See examples of MISLEADING used in a sentence.
: to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief often by deliberate deceit. His comments were a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. intransitive verb. : to lead astray : give a wrong impression. exciting as they are, they mislead E. M. Forster. misleader noun. misleadingly. ˌmis-ˈlē-diŋ-lē. adverb. Synonyms. bamboozle.
If you describe something as misleading, you mean that it gives you a wrong idea or impression. It would be misleading to say that we were friends. The article contains several misleading statements. Synonyms: confusing, false, ambiguous, deceptive More Synonyms of misleading.
Definitions of misleading. adjective. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently. “a misleading similarity” “statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading ” synonyms: deceptive, shoddy. dishonest, dishonorable. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive. Pronunciation. US. /ˈmɪsˌlidɪŋ/ UK.
to cause someone to believe something that is not true: He has admitted misleading the police about his movements on the night of the murder. Synonym. misinform. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to say something not true in order to deceive. lie All she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.
adjective. /ˌmɪsˈliːdɪŋ/ giving the wrong idea or impression and making you believe something that is not true synonym deceptive. misleading information/advertisements. It would be seriously misleading to suggest that television has no effect on children. Extra Examples. Topics Personal qualities c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
/ˈmɪsˌlid/ /mɪsˈlid/ IPA guide. Other forms: misled; misleading; misleads. Use the verb mislead to describe what you're doing when you don't tell the whole truth, or when you let someone believe something false. You mislead someone when you point them in the wrong direction, literally or metaphorically.
Mislead definition: to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.. See examples of MISLEAD used in a sentence.
Adjective. Verb. Filter. adjective. Tending to mislead; deceptive. American Heritage. Similar definitions. Synonyms: sham. garbled. fraudulent. false. factitious. equivocal. distorted. delusionary. delusional. deceitful. confusing. ambivalent. delusive. inaccurate. ambiguous. Antonyms: truthful. honest. verb. Present participle of mislead.
