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Misleading synonyms

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deceptive
Deceiving or intended to deceive
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  1. Deceiving or intended to deceive
  2. Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive
  3. Deceiving or tending to deceive:
delusive
Of or like a delusion; unreal
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  1. Of or like a delusion; unreal
  2. Tending to delude; misleading
  3. Having the nature of a delusion; false:
delusory
Tending to deceive; delusive.
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  1. Tending to deceive; delusive.
fallacious
Containing a fallacy; erroneous
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  1. Containing a fallacy; erroneous
  2. Tending to mislead; deceptive:
  3. Deceptive or misleading.
illusive
Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
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  1. Subject to or pertaining to an illusion, often used in the sense of an unrealistic expectation or an unreachable goal or outcome.
  2. Illusory; unreal
  3. Illusory.
illusory
Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive:
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  1. Produced by, based on, or having the nature of an illusion; deceptive:
  2. Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal
  3. Deceptive or insubstantial. Deceptive or insubstantial.
Find another word for misleading. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for misleading, like: deceptive, delusive, delusory, fallacious, illusive, illusory, honest and real.

Sentence Examples

  • The title of My Exile in Siberia is misleading; he was never in that country.

  • Thanks for being 'a bit misleading.'

  • This appears to be an artificial and misleading notion.

  • The date of the arrival of the Cechs in Bohemia is very uncertain, and the scanty references to the country in classical and Byzantine writers are rather misleading than otherwise.

  • Columbus, trusting to Toscanelli's misleading chart, looked upon the countries discovered by him as belonging to eastern Asia, a view still shared about 1507 by his brother Bartolomeo.

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