Misdirected

Synonyms for "misdirected" (44 found)

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Closest matches (9)

botched bungled butchered

Adjective(6 words)

deceive distractdivert attentionerrant throwerrant throwerfalse blame

Strong matches (13)

fumbled ill-advised ill-considered ill-contrived ill-devised ill-done ill-executed ill-managed impolitic misadvised

Adjective(3 words)

ill directedinappropriate focusmisapplied

Related words (22)

misconducted misguided misinformed misinstructed misled mismanaged mistaught muffed murdered negligent spoiled

Adjective(10 words)

misdirectmisdirected emphasismisguide misguided misleadmisplaced blamemisrouteunfair blamewrong venuewrongly aimed

Noun(1 words)

misfiring

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

6 entries

deceive directdirected actionfault attributionfocusredirect attention

More specific

9 entries

attention diversiondeceptionmisdirected accusationmisdirected emphasismisdirected faultmisdirected messagemisdirected resource allocationmisdirected signalmisrouted

Collocations

11 entries

misdirected attentionmisdirected blamemisdirected effortmisdirected fundsmisdirected mailmisdirected messagemisdirected policiesmisdirected querymisdirected routemisdirected targetmisdirectedly?

Inflections

4 entries

misdirecting misdirectsmore misdirectedmost misdirected

Derivations

5 entries

misdirect misdirectedly misdirecting misdirection misdirective

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Misdirected discontentment on the left and right boiled over into violent incidents across the country.

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