About The Word Deceptive
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Deceptive
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What's The Definition Of Deceptive?
[adj] tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
[adj] causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deceptive: delusory | dishonest | dishonorable | misleading | unreal Related Terms | Find terms related to Deceptive: aberrant | abroad | adrift | airy | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | apparent | apparently sound | apparitional | askew | astray | at fault | autistic | awry | Barmecidal | Barmecide | beguiling | beside the mark | bogus | casuistic | catchy | chimeric | colorable | corrupt | counterfeit | deceitful | deceiving | defective | deluding | delusional | delusionary | delusive | delusory | dereistic | deviant | deviational | deviative | dishonest | disingenuous | distorted | dreamlike | dreamy | dubious | elusive | empty | errant | erring | erroneous | evasive | fake | fallacious | false | fantastic | faultful | faulty | fishy | flawed | fraudulent | hallucinatory | heretical | heterodox | hollow | illogical | illusional | illusionary | illusive | illusory | imaginary | insincere | jesuitic | misleading | not right | not true | off | off the track | ostensible | out | overrefined | oversubtle | peccant | perverse | perverted | phantasmagoric | phantasmal | phantom | philosophistic | plausible | pseudo | questionable | seeming | self-contradictory | self-deceptive | self-deluding | shifty | slippery | sophistic | sophistical | specious | spectral | spurious | straying | supposititious | trickish | tricksy | tricky | unactual | unfactual | unfounded | unorthodox | unproved | unreal | unreliable | unsubstantial | untrue | untruthful | visionary | wide | wrong See Also | Deceptive In Webster's Dictionary \De*cep"tive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]ceptif. See {Deceive}.]
Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with
false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper
reality from our eyes. --Trench.
{Deceptive cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or
in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
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