misleading

English

Etymology

mislead +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/

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• 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: 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.

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／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)

Verb

misleading

1. present participle and gerund of mislead

Noun

misleading (plural misleadings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• misaligned, misdealing