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Misleading vs Imaginary - What's the difference?

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Misleading is a related term of imaginary.


As adjectives the difference between misleading and imaginary

is that misleading is deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression while imaginary is existing only in the imagination.

As nouns the difference between misleading and imaginary

is that misleading is a deception that misleads while imaginary is imagination; fancy.

As a verb misleading

is .

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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    imaginary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • existing only in the imagination
  • * Addison
    • Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer / Imaginary ills and fancied tortures?
  • (mathematics) of a number, having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.

    • Derived terms

    * imaginarily * imaginariness

    Noun

    (imaginaries)
  • Imagination; fancy.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 324:
    • By then too Mozart's opera, from Da Ponte's libretto, had made Figaro a stock character in the European imaginary and set the whole Continent whistling Mozartian airs and chuckling at Figaresque humour.
  • (mathematics) An imaginary quantity.

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    * (Imaginary number)