Synonyms for Mis leading:

• adj.

  •counterfeit (adjective)
  • crock,
  • hollywood,
  • deceptive,
  • queer,
  • copied,
  • fishy,
  • pirate,
  • assumed,
  • plant,
  • fraudulent,
  • ersatz,
  • two-faced,
  • mock,
  • faked,
  • misleading,
  • sham,
  • snide,
  • fictitious,
  • feigned,
  • affected,
  • pretentious,
  • phony,
  • bogus,
  • framed,
  • pretended,
  • brummagem,
  • imitation,
  • forged,
  • pseudo,
  • bent,
  • won't fly,
  • put-on,
  • soft shell,
  • suppositious,
  • not kosher,
  • not genuine.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • designing,
  • insidious,
  • duplicitous,
  • untrustworthy,
  • cunning,
  • guileful,
  • roguish,
  • astute,
  • shifty,
  • indirect,
  • feline,
  • underhand,
  • mendacious,
  • underhanded,
  • lying,
  • stealthy,
  • subtle,
  • furtive,
  • foxy,
  • artful,
  • sly,
  • rascal,
  • counterfeit,
  • illusory,
  • slick,
  • crafty,
  • knavish,
  • hypocritical,
  • sneaky,
  • clandestine,
  • double-dealing,
  • Astucious,
  • Impostrous,
  • treacherous,
  • wily,
  • untruthful.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • scheming,
  • serpentine,
  • seeming,
  • bum,
  • oblique,
  • off,
  • plausible,
  • fake,
  • unreliable,
  • slippery,
  • Imposturous.
  •delusive (adjective)
  • chimerical,
  • apparent,
  • fantastic,
  • illusive,
  • quixotic,
  • visionary,
  • ostensible,
  • fanciful,
  • imaginary.
  •delusory (adjective)
  • chimeric.
  •devious (adjective)
  • curving,
  • remote,
  • erratic,
  • diverting,
  • bending,
  • confusing,
  • errant,
  • removed,
  • roundabout,
  • straying,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • digressory,
  • flexuous,
  • rambling,
  • circuitous,
  • detouring,
  • excursive,
  • Deviating,
  • twisting,
  • wandering,
  • obscure,
  • Digressing,
  • tortuous.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • elusive,
  • sneaking,
  • unscrupulous,
  • Backbiting,
  • unctuous,
  • hoodwinking,
  • sinister,
  • traitorous,
  • corrupt,
  • Swindling,
  • two-timing,
  • double-crossing,
  • shady,
  • cheating,
  • crooked,
  • perfidious,
  • villainous,
  • Bluffing,
  • recreant,
  • unprincipled,
  • unfair,
  • disreputable.
  •elusive (adjective)
  • evanescent,
  • intangible,
  • fugitive,
  • fleeting,
  • baffling,
  • equivocal,
  • fugacious,
  • occult,
  • phantom,
  • shy,
  • indefinable,
  • difficult to catch,
  • imponderable,
  • insubstantial,
  • cagey,
  • Elusory,
  • greasy,
  • unspecific,
  • transient,
  • transitory,
  • incomprehensible,
  • volatile,
  • stonewalling.
  •equivocal (adjective)
  • fuzzy,
  • ambivalent,
  • muzzy,
  • clouded,
  • open,
  • tenebrous,
  • suspicious,
  • dubious,
  • suspect,
  • undecided,
  • unintelligible,
  • hazy,
  • borderline,
  • clear as mud,
  • Amphibological,
  • vague,
  • muddled,
  • indistinct,
  • questionable,
  • indefinite,
  • unclear,
  • problematic,
  • indeterminate,
  • with mixed feelings,
  • unexplicit.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • devious,
  • dissembling,
  • Equivocating,
  • casuistic,
  • Prevaricating,
  • shuffling.
  •fallacious (adjective)
  • invalid,
  • erroneous,
  • irrational,
  • ungrounded,
  • unreal,
  • reasonless,
  • unreasonable,
  • way off,
  • unsound,
  • mistaken,
  • incorrect,
  • untrue,
  • sophistic,
  • illogical,
  • unfounded,
  • Unreasoned,
  • mad.
  •false (adjective)
  • contrary to fact,
  • malevolent,
  • distorted,
  • dishonest,
  • apocryphal,
  • mythomaniac,
  • off the mark,
  • scoundrelly,
  • unfaithful,
  • wicked,
  • faulty,
  • Concocted,
  • Canting,
  • base,
  • falsehearted,
  • renegade,
  • cooked-up,
  • venal,
  • inexact,
  • Forsworn,
  • faithless,
  • counterfactual,
  • apostate,
  • treasonable,
  • malicious,
  • Misrepresentative,
  • disloyal,
  • dishonorable,
  • mean,
  • foul,
  • improper,
  • Perjured,
  • trumped up,
  • rascally.
  •fantastic (adjective)
  • exotic,
  • imaginative,
  • extravagant,
  • unbelievable,
  • eccentric,
  • foreign,
  • nonsensical,
  • artificial,
  • odd,
  • hallucinatory,
  • extreme,
  • ridiculous,
  • insane,
  • singular,
  • incredible,
  • phantasmagorical,
  • preposterous,
  • foolish,
  • fictional,
  • absurd,
  • outlandish,
  • ludicrous,
  • comical,
  • grotesque,
  • out of sight,
  • crazy,
  • implausible,
  • freakish,
  • peculiar,
  • capricious,
  • far-fetched,
  • weird,
  • whimsical,
  • quaint,
  • wacky,
  • unlikely.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • fictive,
  • mythical,
  • invented,
  • romantic,
  • supposititious,
  • factitious,
  • Created,
  • simulated,
  • fashioned,
  • trumped-up,
  • improvised,
  • made,
  • imagined,
  • figmental,
  • fabricated,
  • hyped up,
  • make-believe,
  • synthetic.
  •hallucinatory (adjective)
  • phantasmal,
  • Phantasm.
  •illusive (adjective)
  • mocking,
  • unread.
  •illusory (adjective)
  • blue sky,
  • pipe dream,
  • Barmecidal,
  • float.
  •illusory/illusive (adjective)
  • blue-sky,
  • ideal,
  • Semblant.
  •invented (adjective)
  • fantastical,
  • made-up.
  •lying (adjective)
  • falsifying,
  • misrepresenting,
  • misstating,
  • fibbing,
  • Inventing,
  • dissimulating,
  • committing perjury.
  •meretricious (adjective)
  • chintzy,
  • loud,
  • superficial,
  • ornate,
  • trashy,
  • garish,
  • tawdry,
  • tinsel,
  • showy,
  • brazen,
  • glaring,
  • insincere,
  • blatant,
  • plastic.
  •misleading (adjective)
  • catchy,
  • ambiguous,
  • disingenuous,
  • bewildering,
  • evasive,
  • puzzling,
  • perplexing,
  • casuistical,
  • inaccurate,
  • specious,
  • spurious,
  • confounding,
  • beguiling,
  • Deceiving,
  • wrong,
  • tricky,
  • demagogic,
  • delusory,
  • false,
  • deceitful,
  • sophistical,
  • fallacious,
  • delusive,
  • Distracting,
  • Deluding.
  •perfidious (adjective)
  • betraying,
  • undependable,
  • unloyal,
  • snake in the grass.
  •perjured (adjective)
  • swearing falsely,
  • bearing false witness,
  • commiting perjury.
  •phantasmagoric (adjective)
  • phantasmic.
  •puzzling (adjective)
  • enigmatic,
  • beyond one,
  • unaccountable,
  • mystifying,
  • knotty,
  • hard,
  • involved,
  • unfathomable,
  • difficult,
  • abstruse,
  • inexplicable,
  • labyrinthine,
  • surprising.
  •sham (adjective)
  • dummy,
  • plaster,
  • so-called,
  • adulterated,
  • substitute,
  • pretend.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • perverse,
  • convoluted,
  • involute.
  •treacherous (adjective)
  • hairy,
  • alarming,
  • risky,
  • hazardous,
  • unsafe,
  • ticklish,
  • icy,
  • False-hearted,
  • unhealthy,
  • shaky,
  • ominous,
  • unstable,
  • Dissembled,
  • insecure,
  • menacing,
  • perilous,
  • chancy,
  • fly-by-night,
  • Jeopardous,
  • precarious.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • intelligent,
  • shrewd,
  • streetwise,
  • Witted,
  • smooth,
  • sharp,
  • wry,
  • keen,
  • deep,
  • clever.
  •trumped up (adjective)
  • Devised,
  • made up,
  • cooked up,
  • Falsified.
  •two-faced (adjective)
  • backstabbing.
  •unfounded (adjective)
  • off-base,
  • baseless,
  • Foundationless,
  • bottomless,
  • without basis,
  • unproven,
  • unsubstantiated,
  • groundless,
  • uncalled-for,
  • vain,
  • unwarranted,
  • gratuitous,
  • unjustified,
  • without foundation,
  • idle.
  •unreal (adjective)
  • impalpable,
  • aerial,
  • unsubstantial,
  • dreamlike,
  • Storybook,
  • nonexistent,
  • notional,
  • fabulous,
  • legendary,
  • theoretical,
  • phantasmagoric,
  • fabled,
  • nebulous,
  • reachy,
  • immaterial.
  •untrue (adjective)
  • hollow,
  • meretricious,
  • wide,
  • imprecise,
  • inconstant,
  • deviant,
  • out of line.
  •vain (adjective)
  • inefficacious,
  • empty,
  • unnotable,
  • abortive,
  • in vicious circle,
  • valueless,
  • not a prayer,
  • shuck,
  • senseless,
  • profitless,
  • void,
  • petty,
  • slight,
  • trifling,
  • pointless,
  • worthless,
  • frivolous,
  • paltry,
  • trivial,
  • no-win,
  • unproductive,
  • barren,
  • unprofitable,
  • puny,
  • insignificant,
  • going nowhere,
  • nugatory,
  • bootless,
  • unimportant,
  • time-wasting,
  • unavailing,
  • on a treadmill,
  • fruitless,
  • otiose,
  • sterile.

• v.

  •beguile (verb)
  • finesse,
  • con,
  • shave,
  • mislead,
  • jockey,
  • suck in,
  • chisel,
  • impose on,
  • manipulate,
  • burn,
  • play for a sucker,
  • gyp,
  • flimflam,
  • have,
  • take,
  • stick,
  • string along,
  • play,
  • exploit.
  •belie (verb)
  • disguise,
  • gloss over,
  • twist,
  • hide,
  • give the lie to,
  • distort,
  • warp,
  • Miscolor,
  • trump up,
  • conceal,
  • falsify,
  • garble,
  • color,
  • misstate.
  •betray (verb)
  • forsake,
  • let down,
  • break trust,
  • knife,
  • sell down the river,
  • bite the hand that feeds you,
  • blow the whistle,
  • break with,
  • go back on,
  • stab in the back,
  • jilt,
  • cross,
  • break promise,
  • walk out on,
  • turn informer,
  • turn state's evidence,
  • play judas,
  • inform against,
  • turn in,
  • commit treason,
  • abandon,
  • sell out,
  • finger,
  • inform on,
  • deliver up,
  • break faith,
  • desert,
  • be unfaithful,
  • play false.
  •blear (verb)
  • protrude,
  • dim,
  • dull.
  •bluff (verb)
  • bunco,
  • humbug,
  • feign,
  • affect,
  • simulate,
  • psych out,
  • jive,
  • fake out.
  •cajole (verb)
  • bootlick,
  • influence,
  • decoy,
  • urge,
  • soften,
  • blandish,
  • massage,
  • brownnose,
  • oil,
  • butter up,
  • sweeten up,
  • banter,
  • work on,
  • tantalize,
  • play up to,
  • jolly,
  • push,
  • make up to,
  • argue into,
  • work over,
  • stroke,
  • suck up to,
  • lay it on thick,
  • soft-soap,
  • hand a line,
  • rub the right way,
  • spread it on,
  • crowd,
  • soap,
  • entrap,
  • get around,
  • apple polish,
  • maneuver,
  • build up,
  • induce,
  • sweet-talk,
  • get next to,
  • wheedle.
  •cheat (verb)
  • diddle,
  • milk,
  • take for a ride,
  • gouge,
  • double-deal,
  • screw,
  • DO,
  • beat,
  • finagle,
  • skin,
  • fleece,
  • bleed,
  • sucker,
  • stiff,
  • fast talk,
  • pull one's leg,
  • give bum steer,
  • two-time,
  • short,
  • do a number on,
  • bamboozle,
  • sandbag,
  • crib,
  • take out,
  • swindle,
  • trim,
  • caboodle,
  • jerk around,
  • ream.
  •con (verb)
  • cajole,
  • coax,
  • hornswoggle,
  • chicane.
  •confuse (verb)
  • cloud,
  • daze,
  • addle,
  • abash,
  • fog,
  • confound,
  • discompose,
  • embarrass,
  • render uncertain,
  • involve,
  • shame,
  • bemuse,
  • upset,
  • baffle,
  • fluster,
  • faze,
  • throw off,
  • darken,
  • puzzle,
  • becloud,
  • mystify,
  • stump,
  • complicate,
  • throw off balance,
  • muddle,
  • disorient,
  • worry,
  • discountenance,
  • nonplus,
  • frustrate,
  • trouble,
  • demoralize,
  • mess up,
  • stir up,
  • befuddle,
  • rattle,
  • distract,
  • fuddle,
  • bedevil,
  • clutter,
  • unsettle,
  • astonish,
  • perturb,
  • discomfit,
  • perplex,
  • mortify,
  • amaze,
  • disconcert,
  • unhinge.
  •decoy (verb)
  • mousetrap,
  • lead up garden path,
  • come on,
  • wile,
  • tout,
  • shill,
  • toll,
  • egg one on,
  • fascinate,
  • allure,
  • steer,
  • trap,
  • ensorcell.
  •delude (verb)
  • play trick on,
  • outfox,
  • disinform.
  •disappoint (verb)
  • dash,
  • cast down,
  • come to nothing,
  • abort,
  • leave in the lurch,
  • vex,
  • not show,
  • foil,
  • fall short of,
  • fail,
  • stand up,
  • dumbfound,
  • founder,
  • hinder,
  • embitter,
  • bring to naught,
  • chagrin,
  • dissatisfy,
  • miscarry,
  • disgruntle,
  • thwart,
  • balk,
  • torment,
  • fall flat,
  • disenchant,
  • fall down on,
  • dishearten,
  • bungle,
  • tease,
  • ruin prospects,
  • put out,
  • dash hopes,
  • circumvent,
  • disillusion,
  • hamper.
  •distract (verb)
  • bewilder,
  • harass,
  • disturb,
  • derange,
  • abstract,
  • amuse,
  • detract,
  • madden,
  • occupy,
  • sidetrack,
  • entertain,
  • lead away,
  • draw away,
  • frenzy,
  • agitate,
  • catch flies,
  • divert,
  • turn aside,
  • unbalance,
  • mix up,
  • engross,
  • call away,
  • stall.
  •double-cross (verb)
  • sell,
  • double deal,
  • four-flush,
  • split.
  •dupe (verb)
  • dust,
  • pull something,
  • spoof,
  • kid,
  • catch.
  •ensnare (verb)
  • embroil,
  • snag,
  • snarl,
  • bat eyes at,
  • snare,
  • net,
  • tangle,
  • hook,
  • capture,
  • bag.
  •fob off (verb)
  • offload,
  • foist,
  • foist off.
  •garble (verb)
  • confuse,
  • belie,
  • jumble,
  • misinterpret,
  • tamper with,
  • slant,
  • mutilate,
  • doctor,
  • misquote.
  •hoodwink (verb)
  • beat out of,
  • pull a fast one,
  • take to the cleaners,
  • buffalo,
  • pull the wool over one's eyes,
  • take advantage of.
  •lie (verb)
  • dissimulate,
  • frame,
  • make believe,
  • forswear,
  • fib,
  • prevaricate,
  • Misinstruct,
  • promote,
  • bull,
  • malign,
  • overdraw,
  • palter,
  • bear false witness,
  • equivocate,
  • concoct,
  • put up a front,
  • invent,
  • Misspeak,
  • fabricate,
  • exaggerate,
  • bs,
  • perjure,
  • be untruthful,
  • dissemble.
  •misinform (verb)
  • signify,
  • doublespeak,
  • cover up,
  • put on an act,
  • put up smoke screen,
  • wrong steer,
  • put on false front,
  • bait and switch,
  • double-talk.
  •mislead (verb)
  • cozen,
  • rope in,
  • hoodwink,
  • overreach,
  • pervert,
  • misguide,
  • hose,
  • betray,
  • inveigle,
  • lead astray,
  • cheat,
  • rip off,
  • fool,
  • shaft,
  • bluff,
  • seduce,
  • lure,
  • deceive,
  • delude,
  • scam,
  • entangle,
  • gull,
  • dupe,
  • outwit,
  • pull wool over eyes,
  • lie,
  • entice,
  • misinform,
  • rook,
  • beguile,
  • put on,
  • hoax,
  • bunk,
  • trick,
  • bilk,
  • victimize,
  • misrepresent,
  • juggle,
  • misdirect,
  • bait,
  • ensnare,
  • defraud,
  • double-cross,
  • lead on,
  • fudge,
  • snow,
  • enmesh,
  • tempt,
  • Illude,
  • take in.
  •mock (verb)
  • defeat,
  • elude,
  • disappoint,
  • defy,
  • challenge.
  •outwit (verb)
  • figure out,
  • JIP,
  • Juke,
  • outsmart,
  • end run.
  •outwit/outsmart (verb)
  • outdo,
  • cap,
  • outgeneral,
  • outjockey,
  • outthink,
  • pull a fast one on,
  • put one over on,
  • end-run,
  • make a monkey of,
  • outmaneuver,
  • goose,
  • run circles around,
  • top,
  • fox,
  • worst,
  • make a fool of,
  • outguess.
  •perjure (verb)
  • lie under oath,
  • swear falsely,
  • commit perjury.
  •play dirty (verb)
  • bend the rules,
  • stretch the rules,
  • stack the cards,
  • pull something funny,
  • hit below the belt.
  •pretend (verb)
  • impersonate,
  • malinger,
  • whitewash,
  • be hypocritical,
  • profess,
  • shuck and jive,
  • make out,
  • masquerade,
  • allege,
  • pass oneself off as,
  • pass off,
  • fish,
  • let on,
  • act,
  • assume,
  • jazz,
  • be deceitful,
  • claim falsely,
  • lay claim,
  • stonewall,
  • purport,
  • claim.
  •seduce (verb)
  • draw,
  • pull,
  • persuade,
  • invite,
  • bribe.
  •sell/sell out (verb)
  • give up,
  • rat on,
  • violate,
  • surrender,
  • give away.
  •sham (verb)
  • copy,
  • imitate,
  • create,
  • ape,
  • make like,
  • fake it,
  • play possum,
  • do a number.
  •trick (verb)
  • set up,
  • throw,
  • play for a fool,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • pull wool over,
  • impose upon.
  •two-time (verb)
  • be disloyal,
  • backstab,
  • be dishonest.

Antonyms for Mis leading:

• adj.

  • counterfeit
    authentic, genuine, factual, actual, true, ok, real, valid.
  • deceitful
    ingenuous, naive, reliable, upright, open, loyal, trustworthy, just, forthright, faithful.
  • deceptive
    aboveboard.
  • delusive
    certain.
  • devious
    straightforward, artless, direct.
  • dishonest
    fair, moral, principled, good, honorable, ethical, scrupulous.
  • elusive
    enticing, inviting, understandable, Encountering, stable, intelligible, Attracting, facing, definite, confronting.
  • equivocal
    determined, sure, unequivocal, obvious, plain, clear, unquestionable.
  • evasive
    ready.
  • false
    precise, substantiated, sound, proven, known.
  • fantastic
    normal, unpleasant, believable, reasonable, small, plausible, commonplace, rational, credible, customary, usual, bad, realistic, unimaginative, sensible, common, Familiar, poor, conventional, serious, sane, little, logical, tiny, regular, ordinary, balanced.
  • fictitious
    confirmed.
  • meretricious
    undecorated, unembellished.
  • misleading
    correct, honest, frank, accurate, sincere, truthful, right, straight.
  • puzzling
    comprehensible, explainable, explicit, comprehendible, fathomable, explicable.
  • sham
    natural.
  • tortuous
    easy, uninvolved, untwisted, uncomplicated.
  • treacherous
    harmless, secure, strong, protected, safe, friendly, untreacherous.
  • unfounded
    justified, called-for, warranted, supported, founded.
  • vain
    important, shy, significant, modest, possible, consequential, useful.

• v.

  • beguile
    refuse, give, offer.
  • belie
    divulge, represent, tell, reveal, lay bare, expose, uncover, unmask, straighten, disclose, let out, prove, attest, show.
  • betray
    be quiet, hide, keep secret, be loyal, stay, help, be faithful, defend, assist, aid.
  • blear
    brighten, lighten.
  • bluff
    come clean, tell truth.
  • cajole
    discourage, repel, force, dissuade, bully.
  • cheat
    fail, lose.
  • con
    be forthright.
  • confuse
    comfort, calm, encourage, settle, illuminate, explain, order, soothe, organize, expect, clear up, please, explicate, clarify, facilitate, separate, enlighten.
  • decoy
    let go, release.
  • delude
    be truthful.
  • disappoint
    delight, forward, excite, allow, permit, succeed, make happy, satisfy.
  • distract
    anger, tire, upset, bore.
  • double-cross
    be open.
  • dupe
    be serious.
  • ensnare
    disentangle, liberate, uncomplicate, free.
  • garble
    leave alone, pronounce, translate, decipher, unscramble, purify.
  • lie
    be upright, destroy, stand.
  • misinform
    inform, tell all.
  • mislead
    be honest, guard, turn off, lead, protect, exclude, support, repulse, advise, disgust, counsel, disenchant.
  • mock
    abet, flatter, praise, exalt.
  • outwit
    surrender.
  • perjure
    certify.
  • pretend
    deny.
  • seduce
    push, reject.
  • sham
    be original.
  • take in
    misconceive, misunderstand.