Misguided vs Null - What's the difference?
misguided | null |
ill-conceived or not thought through
* 2013 September 28, , "
misled or mistaken
lacking proper guidance
(misguide)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective misguided
is ill-conceived or not thought through.As a verb misguided
is (misguide).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.misguided
English
Adjective
(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
Synonyms
* (lacking proper guidance ) stray, straying, erring, errant, confused, off courseVerb
(head)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.