Etymology
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mislead + -ing
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)
- Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
- Synonyms: confusing, misdirective, mistakable
- Antonyms: clear, unconfusing, unmisleading
1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1:The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.
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tending to mislead
- Arabic: مُضَلِّل (muḍallil)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: зма́нлівы (zmánlivy)
- Bulgarian: заблуждаващ (bg) (zabluždavašt), подвеждащ (bg) (podveždašt)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 易誤解的/易误解的 (yì wùjiě de), 誤導的/误导的 (zh) (wùdǎo de), 虛幻的/虚幻的 (zh) (xūhuàn de), 使人產生誤解/使人产生误解 (shǐrén chǎnshēng wùjiě)
- Czech: zavádějící (cs)
- Dutch: misleidend (nl)
- Esperanto: miskonkludiga, misgvida
- Finnish: harhaanjohtava (fi), erehdyttävä (fi), petollinen (fi), harhauttava
- French: trompeur (fr)
- Georgian: შეცდომაში შემყვანი (šecdomaši šemq̇vani), მომატყუებელი (momaṭq̇uebeli)
- German: irreführend (de), missverständlich (de), verwirrend (de)
- Greek: παραπλανητικός (el) (paraplanitikós)
- Ancient: παραγωγός (paragōgós), πλάνος (plános)
- Hebrew: מטעה m (mat'é)
- Hungarian: félrevezető (hu), megtévesztő (hu)
- Italian: fuorviante (it)
- Japanese: 紛らわしい (ja) (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:
- Roman: prijetvoran (sh), obmanjivački, dezorijentirajući
- Spanish: engañoso (es), ilusorio (es)
- Swedish: vilseledande (sv), missvisande (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: обма́нливий (obmánlyvyj)
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misleading
- present participle and gerund of mislead
misleading (plural misleadings)
- A deception that misleads.
- Synonyms: disinformation, false pretense, fakeout, head fake, misinformation, ploy, ruse
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.
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