4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misled} (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.] [AS. misl[=ae]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. [1913 Webster] Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a. Leading astray; delusive. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: misleading adj : tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" [syn: {deceptive}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 85 Moby Thesaurus words for "misleading": Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric, college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection, miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation, misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge, mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious, spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong
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