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Misleading vs Fanciful - What's the difference?

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Misleading is a related term of fanciful.


As adjectives the difference between misleading and fanciful

is that misleading is deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression while fanciful is imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined.

As a verb misleading

is .

As a noun misleading

is a deception that misleads.

misleading

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

    • Derived terms

    * unmisleading

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deception that misleads.
  • * 2012 , Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)
    • According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

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    fanciful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fancifull * phanciful * phancifull

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • imaginative or fantastic; unreal or imagined

    • Derived terms

    * fancifully * fancifulness