English words for 'Incorrect intelligence; wrong information; misinformation'
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adj
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
noun
noun
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- inadvertent incorrectness
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
- False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.
- misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
- Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content; intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.
verb
noun
intj
verb
verb
- To spread inaccurate or false information.
- To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
- To seek or attract attention, especially through ostentation.
- To enliven something, especially a spectacle or attraction.
- To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
- To obtain money through fraudulent or deceitful means; to swindle or con.
noun
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- a shape resulting from distortion
- a change for the worse
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
- An act of distorting.
- (optics) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
- A result of distorting.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
adj
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
- extremely dark
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- offering little or no hope
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- harshly ironic or sinister
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
- (of a location or setting) Without light.
- (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
- (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
noun
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
- (firefighting) The blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
- (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
- (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- (US, slang) Marijuana.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- (informal, chiefly UK, chiefly uncountable) Blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
- (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
verb
noun
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
- (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- (computing) Synonym of backscatter.
- (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
- (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
adj
prep_phrase
verb
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
noun
adj
- Not consistent with established facts; incorrect.
- Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
- Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.
- Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
- (mathematics) Of a complex random variable, correlated with its conjugate.
- Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
- not suitable or right or appropriate
- not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
noun
- The use of information as a weapon.
- The act of countering government propaganda.
- A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
- Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .
- The act of undermining advertising.
- A primary aesthetic quality of the literary and/or fictional works belonging to the literary subgenre (of science fiction) called informationist science fiction, and a primary aesthetic disposition of the authors of those works or texts. Commonly included in the corpus of informationist science fiction literature are such texts as Samuel R. Delany's Babel 17, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep
- Commitment to the idea that the world is fundamentally composed of, supervenes upon, or reduces to, information of some kind.
noun
- a willful perversion of facts
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- the act of determining that something is false
- any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
- A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
noun
- a willful perversion of facts
- a misleading falsehood
- (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
- Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
verb
- To misrepresent.
- To counterfeit; to forge.
- (sciences, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false.
- (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- falsify knowingly
- prove false
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
noun
- a misconception resulting from incorrect information
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- inadvertent incorrectness
- (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
- part of a statement that is not correct
- departure from what is ethically acceptable
- (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
- (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
- (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
- (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
- (countable, uncountable) Sin; transgression.
- (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
- (linguistics) An unintentional deviation from the inherent rules of a language variety made by a second language learner.
- Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
verb
noun
- False information intentionally disseminated to deliberately confuse or mislead; intentional misinformation.
- misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.)
- Fabricated or deliberately manipulated content; intentionally created conspiracy theories or rumors.
verb
noun
intj
verb
noun
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- A misrepresentation of the truth.
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- a shape resulting from distortion
- a change for the worse
- a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
- An act of distorting.
- (optics) An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
- A result of distorting.
- Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
- An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
noun
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
- (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- (computing) Synonym of backscatter.
- (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
- (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
noun
- The use of information as a weapon.
- The act of countering government propaganda.
- A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
- Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .
- The act of undermining advertising.
- A primary aesthetic quality of the literary and/or fictional works belonging to the literary subgenre (of science fiction) called informationist science fiction, and a primary aesthetic disposition of the authors of those works or texts. Commonly included in the corpus of informationist science fiction literature are such texts as Samuel R. Delany's Babel 17, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep
- Commitment to the idea that the world is fundamentally composed of, supervenes upon, or reduces to, information of some kind.
noun
- a willful perversion of facts
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
- the act of determining that something is false
- any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
- The act of showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.
- A knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation.
- The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
noun
- a willful perversion of facts
- a misleading falsehood
- (cartography) Faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
- Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
- Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement.
verb
- To spread inaccurate or false information.
- To promote with bombast, exaggeration, or outright falsehood; to hype or sensationalize.
- To seek or attract attention, especially through ostentation.
- To enliven something, especially a spectacle or attraction.
- To dumb down, cheapen, or vulgarize something, especially to create entertainment that appeals to coarse or unsophisticated tastes.
- To obtain money through fraudulent or deceitful means; to swindle or con.
verb
- give false or misleading information to
- lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
- To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
- To deceptively trick into something wrong.
- (literally) To lead astray, in a false direction.
- (loosely) To accidentally or intentionally confuse.
noun
verb
- To misrepresent.
- To counterfeit; to forge.
- (sciences, otherwise archaic) To prove to be false.
- (accounting) To show (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
- To alter so as to make false; especially when done with intent to deceive.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- falsify knowingly
- prove false
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
adj
- Based on false or misleading information or unjustified assumptions.
- Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
- (computing, slang) Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- (slang) Undesirable or harmful.
- (philately) Of a totally fictitious issue printed for collectors, often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country (not to be confused with forgery, which is an illegitimate copy of a genuine stamp).
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
noun
adj
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
- extremely dark
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- offering little or no hope
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- harshly ironic or sinister
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
- (of a location or setting) Without light.
- (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
- (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
noun
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
- (firefighting) The blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
- (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
- (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- (US, slang) Marijuana.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- (informal, chiefly UK, chiefly uncountable) Blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
- (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
verb
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- Not consistent with established facts; incorrect.
- Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
- Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.
- Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
- (mathematics) Of a complex random variable, correlated with its conjugate.
- Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
- not suitable or right or appropriate
- not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
- not appropriate for a purpose or occasion