misleading
US: /mɪˈsɫidɪŋ/
UK: /mɪslˈiːdɪŋ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
misleading /mis'li:diɳ/- tính từ
- làm cho lạc đường, làm cho lạc lối
- làm cho mê muội, làm cho lầm đường lạc lối
- lừa dối
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjectivegiving the wrong idea or impression and making you believe sth that is not true
Synonym: DECEPTIVE
misleading information / advertisements + It would be seriously misleading to suggest that television has no effect on children.
misleadingly adverb: These bats are sometimes misleadingly referred to as 'flying foxes'.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
misinform, lead astray, misguide, misdirect, throw off the scent or track, pull the wool over someone's eyes, fool, outwit, bluff, hoodwink, trick, humbug, bamboozle, deceive, dupe, gull, cozen, Colloq con, take in, lead up the garden path, flimflam, slip or put or pass one over on, Slang take, US give someone a bum steer:
I was misled into believing that she loved only me. He is misleading you if he says that the shares will soon increase in value.
Collocation
VERBS
appear, be
ADV.
extremely, grossly, highly, positively, profoundly, seriously, very | completely, entirely, totally, wholly | a bit, a little, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat | potentially | deliberately
Her statement was deliberately misleading.
| dangerously
Some of the information was dangerously misleading.
PREP.
about
The brochure was extremely misleading about the cost of the holiday.
Concise dictionary
misled|misleads|misleading‚mɪslɪːdverb
+lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
+give false or misleading information to
