'Deceptive' definitions:
Definition of 'deceptive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" [syn: deceptive, delusory]
adjective
Designed 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"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
Definition of 'Deceptive'
From: GCIDE
- Deceptive \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. [1913 Webster]
- Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
- Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deceptive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Deceptive'
- Deceptibility,
- Deceptible,
- Deception,
- Deceptively,
- Deceptiveness,
- Deceptivity,
- Deceptive cadence,
- electronic deception,
- Self-deception,
- electronic imitative deception,
- electronic manipulative deception,
- electronic simulative deception,
- imitative electronic deception,
- manipulative electronic deception,
- simulative electronic deception