MISLEADING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MISLEADING?

Need another word that means the same as “misleading”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “misleading” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Misleading” are: deceptive, confusing, equivocal, ambiguous, fallacious, specious, spurious, false, mock, pseudo, illusory, delusive, evasive

Misleading as an Adjective

Definitions of "Misleading" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “misleading” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.
• Giving the wrong idea or impression.

Synonyms of "Misleading" as an adjective (13 Words)

ambiguous	Having more than one possible meaning. Ambiguous words.
confusing	Causing confusion or disorientation. Being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child.
deceptive	Giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading. The deceptive calm in the eye of the storm.
delusive	Giving a false or misleading impression. Delusive expectations.
equivocal	(of a person) using ambiguous or evasive language. Popularity is an equivocal crown.
evasive	Avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire. They decided to take evasive action.
fallacious	Containing or based on a fallacy. Fallacious arguments.
false	Used in names of plants animals and gems that superficially resemble the thing properly so called e g false oat. The trunk had a false bottom.
illusory	Based on illusion; not real. She knew the safety of her room was illusory.
mock	(of an examination, battle, etc.) arranged for training or practice. Jim threw up his hands in mock horror.
pseudo	(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of. We are talking about real journalists and not the pseudo kind.
specious	Misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive. The music trade gives Golden Oldies a specious appearance of novelty.
spurious	(of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid. This spurious reasoning results in nonsense.

Usage Examples of "Misleading" as an adjective

• A misleading similarity.
• Statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading.
• Your article contains a number of misleading statements.

Associations of "Misleading" (30 Words)

ambiguity	The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness. We can detect no ambiguity in this section of the Act.
ambivalence	The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. The law s ambivalence about the importance of a victim s identity.
anachronism	A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. The town is a throwback to medieval times an anachronism that has survived the passing years.
antinomy	A contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox. There are not many short novels capable of accommodating bewildering antinomies.
conflicting	On bad terms. Conflicting opinions.
confusing	Bewildering or perplexing. Being hospitalized can be confusing and distressing for a small child.
contradiction	A statement that is necessarily false. He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction.
contradictory	A contradictory proposition. Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness.
delusive	Giving a false or misleading impression. Delusive expectations.
discrepancy	A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions. There s a discrepancy between your account and his.
discrepant	Not in accord. The reasons for these discrepant results are unclear.
disorder	Bring disorder to. Recurrent food crises led to outbreaks of disorder.
dissonant	Characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved. Irregular dissonant chords.
error	A measure of the estimated difference between the observed or calculated value of a quantity and its true value. Goods dispatched to your branch in error.
inaccurate	Not accurate. A forecast that proved wildly inaccurate.
incompatibility	The degree to which the body’s immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue. Defects due to software incompatibility.
incongruity	The state of being incongruous; incompatibility. The incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her.
inconsistency	The quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts. The inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour.
incorrect	Not agreeing with grammatical principles. An incorrect transcription.
misconceive	Interpret in the wrong way. Criticism of the trade surplus in Washington is misconceived.
misconception	A view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding. Public misconceptions about antibiotic use.
misunderstanding	An understanding of something that is not correct. There must have been some kind of misunderstanding.
omission	Something that has been omitted. There are glaring omissions in the report.
oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).
paradox	A statement or proposition which, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems logically unacceptable or self-contradictory. The liar paradox.
repugnance	Intense disgust. Our repugnance at the bleeding carcasses.
repulsion	A force under the influence of which objects tend to move away from each other, e.g. through having the same magnetic polarity or electric charge. Bond lengths are increased due to increasing repulsion between the atoms.
slip	A slippery smoothness. The front wheels began to slip.
throwback	An organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism. The eyes could be an ancestral throwback.
unsuited	Not easy to combine harmoniously. He was totally unsuited for the job.