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Misguided vs Unguided - What's the difference?

misguided | unguided |

As adjectives the difference between misguided and unguided

is that misguided is ill-conceived or not thought through while unguided is not guided; without a guide.

As a verb misguided

is past tense of misguide.

misguided

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • ill-conceived or not thought through
  • * 2013 September 28, , " 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.
  • misled or mistaken
  • lacking proper guidance
    • A misguided child may use his personal power in mischievous ways

    Synonyms

    * (lacking proper guidance ) stray, straying, erring, errant, confused, off course

    Verb

    (head)
  • (misguide)

    • unguided

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not guided; without a guide.
  • * 1977 , Philip McCord Morse, In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life (page 33)
    • My unguided tour through the humanities would likely be unbalanced, but I hoped that this could be made up for by the sheer number of books read.
  • * 1998 , Turner Publishing Company, Air Force Missileers (page 13)
    • Genie was an unguided missile. Since it was armed with a nuclear warhead, accuracy was not really necessary