mislead
/mɪsˈliːd/
mislead verb: to lead astray, in a false direction.
Verb
mislead (third-person singular simple present misleads, present participle misleading, simple past and past participle misled)
- To lead astray, in a false direction.
- City of the dead / At the end of another lost highway / Signs misleading to nowhere2004, Green Day, “Jesus of Suburbia”, in American Idiot
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- The preacher elaborated Satan's ways to mislead us into sin
- Synonyms:
- seduce
- To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
Noun
mislead (countable and uncountable, plural misleads)
- A wrong or bad lead; a leading in the wrong direction.
- If all the misleads (incorrect alternatives) are illogical, absurd, or in any way unattractive as possible answers, the student has no difficulty in choosing the correct answer.1951, Improvement of Grading Practices for the Air Training, page 31
- That which is deceptive or untruthful (e.g. a falsehood, deception, untruth, or ruse).
- The skinny body, a mislead to make people think that he was captured by someone and tortured. Even the loud gunshot was a mislead to make them ask questions to common citizens. His long untidy hair, also a mislead.2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes
mislead meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mislead in Hindi
- lead in a false direction
- बहकाना bahkānā
mislead in Tamil
- தப்பு வழி காட்டு, தவறாக வழி நடத்து, திசை திருப்பு, தவறான வழிநடத்து, தவறான வழிப்படுத்து
mislead in Marathi
- दिशाभूल करण्यासाठी, दिशाभूल करायला
mislead in Urdu
- بہکانا, دھوکا دینا, گمراہ کرنا, ورغلانا
More languagesFewer languages
- mislead in Bengali
- ভুল পথে চালানো, বিভ্রান্ত করা
- mislead in Telugu
- తప్పుదోవ పట్టించడానికి, తప్పుదోవ పట్టించేందుకు, తప్పుదోవ పట్టించటానికి
- mislead in Malayalam
- വഴിതെറ്റിക്കുക vaḻiteṟṟikkuka, തെറ്റിക്കുക teṟṟikkuka
- mislead in Kannada
- ತಪ್ಪುದಾರಿಗೆ ಎಳೆ, ಅಡ್ಡದಾರಿ ಹಿಡಿಸು, ದಾರಿತಪ್ಪಿಸು, ತಪ್ಪು ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯವನ್ನುಂಟುಮಾಡು
- mislead in Punjabi
- ਪੁੱਟਣਾ puṭṭaṇā
- mislead in Gujarati
- ગેરમાર્ગે દોરવા, ગેરમાર્ગે દોરવા માટે
- mislead in Nepali
- गुमराह गर्न
- mislead in Arabic
- أَضَلَّ ʔaḍalla
Examples of mislead in a sentence
- I was cheaped out of having a good vacation because the hotel's marketing misled me.
- He'll have it that I am maliciously misleading him.
- "I appeal to the working men of Great Britain..not to be misled by catch-phrases about ‘the liberty of the subject’ and the ridiculous cant about a ‘Blood Tax’!"
Synonyms of mislead
Antonyms
Forms of mislead
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | misleads |
| present participle | misleading |
| past participle | misled |
| past | misled |
| Noun | |
| plural | misleads |
Origin of mislead
From Middle English mysleden, from Old English mislǣdan (“to mislead”), from Proto-Germanic *missalaidijaną (“to mislead”). By surface analysis, mis- + lead.
Words formed from mislead
Words that rhyme with mislead
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- weed
- proceed
- stampede
- concede
- accede
- deed
- exceed
- need
- bede
- knead
- plead
- rede
- swede
- cede
- creed
- godspeed
- heed
- intercede
- keyed
- leed
- meed
- precede
- recede
- tumbleweed
- a friend in need is a friend indeed
- beread
- greed
- he'd
- indeed
- interbreed
- kneed
- mead
- secede
- she'd
- sneed
- steed
- supersede
- underfeed
- we'd
- ye'd
- agreed
- anasheed
- aniseed
- atheed
- caid
- co-feed
- cofeed
- counterplead
Questions about mislead
- What does mislead mean?
- Mislead means to lead astray, in a false direction.
- What is mislead in Hindi?
- Mislead in Hindi is बहकाना (bahkānā). See Mislead meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mislead?
- Mislead can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mislead?
- Mislead is pronounced /mɪsˈliːd/.
- What is the past tense of mislead?
- The past tense of mislead is misled.
Words near mislead in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mislead (page history and authors); mislead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mislead (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mislead (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mislead (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mislead (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); തെറ്റിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mislead (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਪੁੱਟਣਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); mislead (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mislead (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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