Misguided

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misguided
       adj 1: poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to
              take over the company" [syn: {ill-conceived}]
       2: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but
          misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken
          identity" [syn: {mistaken}]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "misguided":
     botched, bungled, butchered, erroneous, fallacious, foolish,
     fumbled, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised,
     ill-done, ill-executed, ill-gauged, ill-judged, ill-managed,
     impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, inconsiderate, indiscreet,
     inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, irrational, mindless,
     misadvised, misconducted, misdirected, misinformed, misinstructed,
     misled, mismanaged, misplaced, mistaken, mistaught, muffed,
     murdered, myopic, negligent, reasonless, reckless, senseless,
     shortsighted, spoiled, thoughtless, unadvised, uncalled-for,
     unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, unreasonable,
     unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsound,
     unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, witless, wrong