| 单词 | misinform |
| 释义 | misinform (once / 5275 pages) v When you misinform someone, you give them the wrong information. If you misinform your friend about what homework is due tomorrow, he may do the wrong math problems. It's possible to misinform people on purpose (deliberately giving them false information), or accidentally. To inform someone is to provide them with information — to educate or advise them about something. Inform comes from a Latin root, informare, "train or instruct," and literally "shape or form." Adding the "wrong" or "not" prefix mis- gives you misinform, "to instruct in the wrong way." WORD FAMILYmisinform: misinformation, misinformed, misinforming, misinforms+/inform: informant, information, informative, informatory, informed, informer, informing, informs, misinform/informant: informants/information: disinformation, informational, informations/informative: informatively, uninformative/informed: informedly, uninformed/informer: informers/misinformation: misinformations/uninformative: uninformatively USAGE EXAMPLESDemocratic Rep. John Martin, who sponsored the law, called Didisheim’s criticisms “misinformed” and said the act was to help spur northern Maine’s economy. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Her comments to reporters about Salt Lick’s fire-safety precautions were misinformed, reflective of the finger-pointing and panic now gripping the city. The Guardian(Dec 09, 2016) He does not think Ms. Lahren is racist, but “misinformed,” he said in a phone interview. New York Times(Dec 04, 2016) v give false or misleading information to Syn|Hypo|Hyper mislead lie tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate, tergiversatebe deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstateto enlarge beyond bounds or the truth sandbagdownplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling betray, deceive, lead astraycause someone to believe an untruth romancetell romantic or exaggerated lies perjureknowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury fibtell a relatively insignificant lie impersonate, personate, posepretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snowconceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end overemphasise, overemphasize, overstressplace special or excessive emphasis on befool, cod, dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take infool or hoax blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vauntshow off aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, padadd details to inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
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