Word Meanings - MISLEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton. Syn. -- To delude; deceive.
Additional info about word: MISLEAD
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton. Syn. -- To delude; deceive. See Deceive. (more info) Etym:
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISLEAD)
- Befool
- Deceive
- cheat
- mystify
- bamboozle
- ensnare
- hoodwink
- mislead
- Bewilder
- Daze
- dazzle
- confound
- puzzle
- embarrass
- astonish
- perplex
- confuse
- Trick
- beguile
- delude
- gull
- dupe
- take in
- over reach
- betray
- entrap
- circumvent
- Decoy
- Allure
- entice
- seduce
- inveigle
- lure
- tempt
- Juggle
- Conjure
- shuffle
- trick
- swindle
- overreach
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MISLEAD)
Related words: (words related to MISLEAD)
- PUZZLEMENT
The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford. - CONJUREMENT
Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. Milton. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - PUZZLE
1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle. - ASTONISH
étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - CIRCUMVENTOR
One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning. - PUZZLEDOM
The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley. - INSTRUCTRESS
A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson. - ENTRAP
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of - DECOYER
One who decoys another. - ILLUMINER
One who, or that which, illuminates. - TEMPTER
One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton. - SEDUCER
One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden. - TEMPTING
Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n. - ASTONISHING
Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n. - DAZZLEMENT
Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne. - CONJURE
Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest. Milton. - JUGGLERESS
1. A female juggler. T. Warton. - TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - OUTPREACH
To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull. - METEMPTOSIS
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, - UNPERPLEX
To free from perplexity. Donne. - BEDAZZLE
To dazzle or make dim by a strong light. "Bedazzled with the sun." Shak. - FOREREACH
To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled. - PREINSTRUCT
To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More. - APPRENTICESHIP
1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).