'Misleading' definitions:
Definition of 'misleading'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Designed 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"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
Definition of 'Misleading'
From: 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]
Definition of 'Misleading'
From: GCIDE
- Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a. Leading astray; delusive. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misleading'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- 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