MISLEADING Synonyms
There are 6 hypernyms of the word misleading. (close relations)
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| beguiling | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire • misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | ||||||
| deceitful | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • involving deception • marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | ||||||
| deceptive | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true • designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | ||||||
| delusive | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • inappropriate to reality or facts | ||||||
| fallacious | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • containing or based on a fallacy • involving deception • based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | ||||||
| false | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective • not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality adverb • in a disloyal and faithless manner adjective satellite • arising from error • erroneous and usually accidental • deliberately deceptive • inappropriate to reality or facts • not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article • designed to deceive • inaccurate in pitch • adopted in order to deceive • (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful | ||||||
| fictitious | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • formed or conceived by the imagination • adopted in order to deceive | ||||||
| fraudulent | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • involving deception | ||||||
| specious | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • plausible but false • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | ||||||
| untrue | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • not according with the facts • not true to an obligation or trust • not accurately fitted; not level • (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful | ||||||
| deluding | verbv | |||||
verb • be false to; be dishonest with | ||||||
| misguide | verbv | |||||
verb • lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions • give bad advice to | ||||||
| misinform | verbv | |||||
verb • give false or misleading information to | ||||||
| beguile | verbv | |||||
verb • influence by slyness • attract; cause to be enamored | ||||||
| cheat | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous • weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat • someone who leads you to believe something that is not true • the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme • a deception for profit to yourself verb • deprive somebody of something by deceit • defeat someone through trickery or deceit • engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud • be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | ||||||
| confusing | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • causing confusion or disorientation • lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | ||||||
| deceive | verbv | |||||
verb • be false to; be dishonest with • cause someone to believe an untruth | ||||||
| delude | verbv | |||||
verb • be false to; be dishonest with | ||||||
| misdirect | verbv | |||||
verb • corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality • lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions • put a wrong address on | ||||||
| mistakable | adjectiveadj | |||||
adjective satellite • so similar as to be easily identified for another thing | ||||||