misguided
/mɪsˈɡʌɪdɪd
/adjective
Having or showing faulty judgement or reasoning: their misguided belief that they were defending the honour of their country...
- It is a disease that has been aided by misguided attempts to cure it.
- Contrary to some misguided beliefs, kicking drugs may be the key to unleashing the true rock and roll spirit.
- It was, he claimed, a misguided, low-budget attempt to offer children individual attention.
Synonyms
erroneous, fallacious, unwarranted, unfounded, unsound, misplaced, misconceived, ill-advised, inadvisable, ill-considered, ill-judged, inappropriate, impolitic, unwise, injudicious, imprudent, rash, foolish
misinformed, misled, misdirected, labouring under a delusion/misapprehension, wrong, mistaken, deluded, ill-advised, foolish
Derivatives
misguidedly
/ adverb ...- More times than not, the movie revolves around a crime or crime spree with the youth in question inadvertently, or misguidedly involved.
- Occasionally, you find the oddballs who think it's an amusing circumstance, and will glance up at you, grinning and misguidedly believing they've stumbled upon the type of serendipity found in romantic comedies.
- They recklessly bandy about terms like ‘toxins,’ ‘chemicals,’ and ‘poison’ while misguidedly revering ‘natural’ substances.
misguidedness
- I'll mock someone or something for the same honesty or misguidedness that I'll demonstrate myself several weeks later.
- He is only condemned in the film by his utter misguidedness.
- But subsequent reading of the play clarifies little and amounts to less, merely confirming his pretensions and misguidedness.
Rhymes
- field-cornetcy
- field course
- fieldcraft
- field cricket
- field culverin
- field curvature
- field dance
- field day
- field defect
- field deputy
- field derrick
- field dinner
- field drain
- field-dress
- field dressing
- field driver
- field editor
- field-effect transistor
- field elm
- field emission
- field emission microscope
- fielden
- field engineer
- field entry
- field equation