misinform
verb (used with object)
to give false or misleading information to.
misinformed
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past participleof misinform.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof misinform.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
misinformverb (used with object)to give false or misleading information to.
Example Sentences
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The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Rama has pivoted between downplaying the protesters as misinformed and dismissing the movement as foreign-backed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Once a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” he landed his own Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” where he played a bloviating, misinformed character, also named Stephen Colbert.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
The answer needs to have numbers in it, and if the numbers don’t have minus signs in front of them, your adviser is misinformed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
