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red herring has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for red herring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a first draft of a prospectus; must be clearly marked to indicate that parts may be changed in the final prospectus
“because some portions of the cover page are printed in red ink a preliminary prospectus is sometimes called a red herring”