Deceptive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper


           reality from our eyes.                   --Trench.
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     {Deceptive cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or
        in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deceptive
       adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe
              what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
              [syn: {delusory}]
       2: 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" [syn: {misleading}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  120 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceptive":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, aberrant, abroad, adrift, airy, all abroad,
     all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparently sound,
     apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, 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