Defenition of the word deceptive

• Defenition of the word deceptive

  • Not in keeping with the reality or the facts.
  • causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
  • 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"
  • designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  • causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

Synonyms for the word deceptive

• • deceiving
  • delusory
  • illusory
  • misleading
  • not to be trusted
  • to be regarded with suspicion
  • unreliable
  • unrepresentative

Similar words in the deceptive

• • deceptive
  • deceptively
  • deceptiveness
  • deceptiveness's
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • unreal

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