misguided
/ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a plan, policy, etc.: not properly planned or thought through; ill-conceived.
verb
simple past and past participle of misguide
Example Sentences
- "But I truſt I ſhall have ſpoken Perſvvaſion to abundance of ſenſible and ingenuous Men; […] to ſtay theſe ruinous Proceedings, juſtly and timely fearing to vvhat a Precipice of Deſtruction the deluge of this epidemic Madneſs vvould hurry us, through the general defection of a miſguided and abus'd Multitude."
- "An ambitious, or rather a miſguided, prince aroſe, vvho deemed all theſe privileges to be conceſſions of his predeceſſors, revokeable at pleaſure; and, in proſecution of this principle, he openly acted in violation of liberty, during the courſe of ſeveral years."
- "Douglas looked on the body of the misguided youth, whose wild passions and caprices had brought him to this fatal and premature catastrophe."
- "[W]here in her theatrical character she was to sup off a roast fowl (O joy to Barbara!) some comic actor, who was for the night caterer for this dainty—in the misguided humour of his part, threw over the dish such a quantity of salt (O grief and pain of heart to Barbara!) that when he crammed a portion of it into her mouth, she was obliged sputteringly to reject it; […]"
- "When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. When we foolishly minimize the internal of our lives and maximize the external, we sign the warrant for our own day of doom."
- "You're just a poor misguided fool / Who thinks they know what I should do / A line for me and a line for you / I lose my right to a point of view."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der. Proto-Germanic *wītaną Frankish *wītanbor. Old Occitan guidarbor. Old French guiderbor. Middle English guiden English guide English misguide Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English misguided From misguide + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
- British English: /(ˌ)mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more misguided (comparative)
most misguided (superlative)