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Definition: Misguided |
MisguidedAdjective1. Poorly conceived or thought out; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company". 2. Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "misguided" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: MisguidedSynonyms: ill-conceived (adj), mistaken (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | Uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age. |
Unskillfulness | Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Misguided |
| English words defined with "misguided": disabused ♦ mistaken ♦ undeceived. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The persons are ignorant and misguided. (Yes, Minister; writing credit: Semyon Lungin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Misguided Missile (1958) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Iris Murdoch | Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These misguided T cells and these autoantibodies, as they are known, contribute to "autoimmune" diseases. (references) | |
Business | In addition, misguided government policies have interfered with market pricing mechanisms, creating disincentives. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | Both were held responsible for "negligence of duties" for their failure to report the news, presumably the result of a misguided effort to self-censor. (references) |
Economic History | Eritrea | The economy was devastated by war and the misguided policies of the Derg, which disrupted agriculture and industry. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I'm pretty sure the Donner party wasn't even that misguided. |
Phil McGraw | Your passion is misguided. You got to have balance. That's the key. Find your passion and apply it in a way that is balanced to you and those you care about. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The American people have heard too much about how terrible our mistakes, how evil our deeds, and how misguided our purposes. |
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| "Misguided" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.48% of the time. "Misguided" is used about 214 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 57.48% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 27.1% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.49% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 214 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
misguided angel | 4 |
child misguided sams uncle | 4 |
fool misguided poor | 3 |
misguided | 3 |
misguided youth | 2 |
misguided rose | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "misguided"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | заблуден (astray, misbeliever, perverted, stray, strayed), погрешно насочен, погрешен (awry, erroneous, false, faulty, illegitimate, improper, inaccurate, incorrect, mis-, mistaken, off beat, perverse, unsound, untrue, vicious, wonky, wrong, wrongful). (various references) | |
Chinese | 引入歧" (misguide, Misguiding). (various references) | |
Finnish | harhaanjohdettu (misled), eksytetty (led astray). (various references) | |
German | verleitete (inveigled, misled, tempted), irregeleitet. (various references) | |
Greek | παράλογος (absurd, senseless), εσφαλμένοσ (false, incorrect, mistaken, wrong), άστοχος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megfontolatlan (short-sighted, unthoughtful), félrevezetett (wrong). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tersesat (astray), sesat (mislead), salah jalan. (various references) | |
Italian | malaccorto (ill-advised, imprudent, rash, unwise), sviato, fuorviato. (various references) | |
Manx | meestiurit, gyn cheeayll (absurd). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isguidedmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extraviado (lost, strayed). (various references) | |
Russian | ошибочный (amiss, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faulty, inaccurate, mistaken, off-beam, unsound, wrongful). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | u zabludi (mistaken, wrong), obmanut. (various references) | |
Spanish | mal aconsejado, equivocado (erroneous, inadvertent, lapsed, lost, made a mistake, mistaken, off base, wrong, wrongful). (various references) | |
Swedish | vilseledd, olämplig (ill timed, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, ineligible, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, unfit, unfitting, unseasonable, unsuitable, unsuited). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | введений в оману. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "misguided": misguidedly, misguidedness, misguidednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Misguided" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misgrief, misguid, misjoinder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "misguided" (pronounced mi'sgī"dud) |
| 5 | -g ī" d u d | guided. |
| 4 | -ī" d u d | abided, chided, coincided, collided, confided, decided, derided, lopsided, divided, glided, presided, prided, provided, resided, sided, subdivided, subsided, undecided, undivided. |
| 3 | -d u d | abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, clouded, coded, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, descended, disbanded, discarded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, founded, funded, gilded, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, masterminded, melded, mended, minded, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, pretended, proceeded, prodded, propounded, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, remolded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unexploded, unfolded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: misguide. | |
-2 letters: giddies, middies, muddies, smudged. | |
-3 letters: degums, desmid, didies, guided, guides, guised, imides, medius, midges, misdid, smidge, smudge. | |
-4 letters: degum, deism, didie, dimes, disme, dudes, geums, gudes, guide, guids, guise, imide, imids, medii, midge, midis, mused, sedum, sided. | |
-5 letters: died, dies, digs, dime, dims, dude, duds, dues, dugs, egis, emus, geds, gems, geum, gids. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-i-m-s-u" | |
+2 letters: misguidedly. | |
+4 letters: disambiguated, misguidedness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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