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misinformative

adj
/mɪsɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/UK/mɪsɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/CA/mɪsɪnˈfoːmətɪv/

Etymology

From mis- + informative.

  1. derived from īnfōrmō
  2. derived from enformer
  3. inherited from informen
  4. suffixed as informative — “inform + ative”
  5. prefixed as misinformative — “mis + informative”

Definitions

  1. Providing incorrect information

    Providing incorrect information; misleading.

    • But if there is no reason for the view that all object-senses obtained in experience are misinformative about the world, then there is no ground for rejecting the realist concept of the world[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misinformative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA