misleading

English

Etymology

mislead +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

Adjective

misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)

1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.

Synonyms

• mistakable
• confusing

Derived terms

• misleadingly
• unmisleading

Translations

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 (zh), 误导的 (zh) (wùdǎo de), 虛幻的 (zh), 虚幻的 (zh) (xūhuàn de), 使人產生誤解, 使人产生误解 (shǐrén chǎnshēng wùjiě)

• 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)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can

  Ancient: παραγωγός (paragōgós), πλάνος (plános)

• Hebrew: מטעה‎ m (mat'é)

• 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:

  Roman: prijetvoran (sh), obmanjivački, dezorijentirajući

• Spanish: engañoso (es), ilusorio
• Swedish: missvisande (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: обма́нливий (obmánlyvyj)

Verb

misleading

1. present participle of mislead

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• misaligned, misdealing