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deceptive

[ dih-sep-tiv ]
/ dɪˈsɛp tɪv /
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adjective

apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive.

Words related to deceptive

falsehood, fraud, trickery, duplicity, hypocrisy, betrayal, untruth, deceit, mendacity, treachery, lying, disinformation, fantasy, hallucination, deception, illusion, prevarication, misinterpretation, heresy, paradox

Words nearby deceptive

decentralized processing, decentre, deception, deception bed, deception table, deceptive, deceptive cadence, decerebrate, decerebration, decern, decertify

Origin of deceptive

1605–15; < Medieval Latin dēceptīvus, equivalent to Latin dēcept(us) (see deception) + -īvus -ive

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British Dictionary definitions for deceptiveness

deceptive
/ (dɪˈsɛptɪv) /

adjective

likely or designed to deceive; misleadingappearances can be deceptive
music (of a cadence) another word for interrupted (def. 3)

Derived forms of deceptive

deceptively, adverbdeceptiveness, noun
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