misguided
[adjective]
Synonyms: unwise, deluded, erroneous, ill-advised, imprudent, injudicious, misplaced, mistaken, unwarranted

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English Thesaurus: wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, false, untrue, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

mis‧guid‧ed /mɪsˈɡaɪdəd, mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/ adjective

1. intended to be helpful but in fact making a situation worse:
He described the government’s economic policy as misguided.
a misguided attempt to bring her parents back together

2. a misguided idea or opinion is wrong because it is based on a wrong understanding of a situation:
His parents still clung to the misguided belief that his common sense would keep him out of serious trouble.
—misguidedly adverb:
The company misguidedly thought that expansion was the best way to survive.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

misguided
adj.
VERBS be, seem
ADV. entirely, quite, totally | rather, somewhat | fundamentally Their approach to the problem is fundamentally misguided.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

wrong not correct or right – used about facts, answers etc, or people:
For every wrong answer, you lose five points.
The figure he gave me was wrong.
I think you’re wrong about that.
incorrect something that is incorrect is wrong because someone has made a mistake. Incorrect is more formal than wrong:
I’m afraid these prices are incorrect.
The doctor had made an incorrect diagnosis.
inaccurate something that is inaccurate is not exactly right and contains mistakes:
inaccurate information
inaccurate measurements
The old maps were often inaccurate.
false not based on true facts:
Are the following statements true or false?
He was accused of giving false information to the police.
untrue [not usually before noun] not based on true facts, especially because someone is lying or guessing:
I can’t believe he said that about me. It’s completely untrue!
The allegations were untrue.
misleading a misleading statement or piece of information makes people believe something that is wrong, especially because it does not give all the facts:
The article was very misleading.
misleading statistics
misguided a misguided decision, belief, action etc is wrong because it is based on bad judgement or understanding:
That decision seems misguided now.
It was the consequence of a misguided economic policy.
mistaken wrong – used about ideas and beliefs. Also used about a person being wrong. You’re mistaken sounds more polite and less direct than saying you’re wrong:
She’s completely mistaken if she thinks that I don’t care about her.
a mistaken belief
go badly/seriously wrong
The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
go horribly/terribly wrong
From that moment on, everything went horribly wrong for the team.
go disastrously wrong
Help was close at hand in case the stunt went disastrously wrong.
go tragically wrong (=so that death or serious injury results)
A father and son died in a fire after a good deed for a friend went tragically wrong.
things go wrong
If things go wrong, they’ll blame me.
something/nothing/everything goes wrong
If something goes wrong with your machine, you can take it back to the dealer.
you can’t go wrong (=you cannot make a mistake)
Turn right and then right again--you really can’t go wrong.
if anything can go wrong, it will
I’m sure that if anything can go wrong, it will.

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