The government is looking for ways to monitor online chatter about political issues and correct what it perceives as misinformation.
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Misinformation
//ˌmɪs.ɪn.fɚˈmeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "misinformation" (66 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (33)
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4 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 12 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 誤傳 /误传 noun (false information)
- 錯誤信息 /错误信息 noun (false information)
Finnish
1 entries- väärä tieto noun (false information)
Galician
1 entries- desinformación noun (false information)
Georgian
2 entries- დეზინფორმაცია noun (false information)
- მისინფორმაცია noun (false information)
Greek
1 entries- παραπληροφόρηση noun (false information)
Hebrew
1 entries- מידע שגוי noun (false information)
Hindi
1 entries- दुष्प्रचार noun (false information)
Hungarian
4 entries- félretájékoztatás noun (false information)
- téves/hibás/rossz értesülés noun (false information)
- téves/hibás/rossz/félrevezető tájékoztatás/információ noun (false information)
- álhírterjesztés noun (false information)
Japanese
1 entries- 誤伝 noun (false information)
Portuguese
1 entries- desinformação noun (false information)
Spanish
4 entries- desinformación noun (false information)
- información errónea noun (false information)
- información falsa noun (false information)
- mala información noun (false information)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- toktok nating noun (false information)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
The so-called expert was just bulging with misinformation about the new product.
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The troll army of Russia came knocking at the gate, armed with misinformation and inflammatory statements.
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One can easily characterize a majority of the energy and power subcommittee members as nincompoops — scientific illiterates who spread misinformation crafted by oil and coal companies in order to minimize the significance of global climate change.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.