misled

Meanings

• Adjective or Verb

  Deceived or led astray, often unintentionally or unknowingly.

  - "He was misled by the false advertisement."
  - "The traveler was misled by the map and ended up in the wrong town."
  - "The scientist was misled by the flawed data."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˌmɪsˈlɛd/
   
   
   
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2. /ˈmɪzəld/
   
   
   
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Antonyms

direct , guide , lead

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Synonyms

beguile , cheat , deceive , delude , forlead , misguide , misinform , seduce

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with misled
led , sled , bled , tread , dead

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Homophones

Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,

1. Mislead (en) : To deceive or lead astray
   

2. Misled (en) : Past tense and past participle of 'Mislead'
   

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Variants

List of all variants of misled that leads to same result
mislead , misleader , misleaders , misleading , misleadingly , misleads , misled

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Etymology

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From Old English 'mislēdan' meaning 'to lead astray'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'misled' contains the letters 's', 'l', 'e', 'd' which appear in the order they do in the English alphabet.

2. The word 'misled' shares the same first three letters with the word 'mislead', which is its past tense and past participle.

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Related Concepts

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1. Deception: The act of intentionally causing someone to believe something false.

2. Misinformation: False or inaccurate information intentionally or unintentionally spread.

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Culture

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In literature, misled is often used to describe characters who are deceived or led astray, such as in Shakespeare's 'Othello' or Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. In art, misled can be symbolically represented through images of being lost or deceived, such as in the painting 'The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog' by Caspar David Friedrich.

How to Memorize "misled"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person being led away from the correct path.
   - Imagine a signpost pointing in the wrong direction.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the feeling of being lost or deceived.
   - Think of someone being tricked into making a wrong decision.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Mnemonic: M - Misled, I - Incorrectly, S - Sent, L - Led, E - Astray, D - Deceived.

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