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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, adjective Leading astray; delusive.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Misled} (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.] [AS. misl[=ae]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.] 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misleading
adjective: tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" [syn: {deceptive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "misleading": Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric, college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection, miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation, misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge, mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious, spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong
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