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misleading

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adjectivenoun
Quick answer

As an adjective, misleading means deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true. As a noun, it means a deception that misleads.

Meanings of misleading

3 meanings

adjective

  1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.

  2. Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

    “the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm”

    “deliberately deceptive packaging”

    “a misleading similarity”

    Similar: deceptive

verb

Present participle of mislead

noun

  1. A deception that misleads.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

adjective: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or ina…
deceptive

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