misleading

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

mislead +‎ -ing

AdjectiveEdit

misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)

1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

SynonymsEdit

• mistakable
• confusing

Derived termsEdit

• misleadingly
• unmisleading

TranslationsEdit

tending to mislead

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 易誤解的, 易误解的 (yìwùjiě de), 誤導的 (zh), 误导的 (zh) (wùdǎo de)

• Czech: zavádějící
• Dutch: misleidend (nl)
• Esperanto: miskonkludiga, misgvida
• Finnish: harhaanjohtava (fi), erehdyttävä (fi), petollinen (fi), harhauttava
• French: trompeur (fr)
• German: irreführend (de), missverständlich (de), verwirrend (de), verwirrend (de)
• Hungarian: félrevezető (hu), megtévesztő (hu)

• Italian: fuorviante (it)
• Japanese: 紛らわしい (まぎらわしい, magirawashii)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: misvisende

• Portuguese: enganoso (pt) m, ilusório (pt) m
• Russian: обма́нчивый (ru) (obmánčivyj), дезориенти́рующий (ru) (dezorijentírujuščij), (false) ло́жный (ru) (lóžnyj), вводя́щий в заблужде́ние (vvodjáščij v zabluždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: prijetvoran (sh), obmanjivački, dezorijentirajući
• Spanish: engañoso (es), ilusorio
• Swedish: missvisande (sv)

VerbEdit

misleading

1. present participle of mislead

NounEdit

misleading (plural misleadings)

1. A deception that misleads.
   • 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)

     According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

AnagramsEdit

• misaligned, misdealing