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To misinform someone is to give them information that is not right. They walk away thinking they know, but they do not. Sometimes it is an honest mix-up: you had the wrong time, so you misinformed your friend. Sometimes it is careless: you passed on a as if it were fact. The word itself does not always mean you meant to trick them. “Lie” is the blunt word for that, and “disinform” is the rarer, heavier one for a planned false story. Still, for the listener the result is the same: they now hold a wrong picture. It is a bit formal. In everyday talk people say “you told me wrong” or “that’s not right.” You misinform someone — a person is the object.
告知錯誤訊息(不一定是存心騙人)
組成mis- (wrongly) + inform.
同家族的字
- informthe base verb; misinform is inform with the wrong facts
- informationthe noun that inform is built on
- misinformationthe noun for the wrong information you give
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
misinformverb
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To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
- It is clear that the politician misinformed the public on the issue.
- Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert. Rick: I was misinformed.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。