MISINFORMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misinformation mean? 

• MISINFORMATION (noun)
  The noun MISINFORMATION has 1 sense:

1. information that is incorrect

  Familiarity information: MISINFORMATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISINFORMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Information that is incorrect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("misinformation" is a kind of...):

info; information (a message received and understood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misinformation"):

blowback (misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service)

disinformation (misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.))

Derivation:

misinform (give false or misleading information to)