Misdirected vs Misguided - What's the difference?
misdirected | misguided |
(misdirect)
To direct something wrongly
*{{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected , and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
To put the incorrect address on a mail item
ill-conceived or not thought through
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misled or mistaken
lacking proper guidance
(misguide)
As verbs the difference between misdirected and misguided
is that misdirected is past tense of misdirect while misguided is past tense of misguide.As an adjective misguided is
ill-conceived or not thought through.misdirected
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(head)misdirect
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(en verb)misguided
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(en adjective)London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided . Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
- A misguided child may use his personal power in mischievous ways