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de·cep·tive

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–adjective

1.	apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.

2.	perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive.

[Origin: 1605–15; < ML déceptīvus, equiv. to L décept(us) (see deception) + -īvus -ive

]

—Related forms

de·cep·tive·ly, adverb

de·cep·tive·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. delusive, fallacious, specious.

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adj. Deceptive or tending to deceive.

de·cep'tive·ness n.

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deceptive
adjective
1.	causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
2.	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"

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
deˈceptive [-tiv] adjective

deceiving; misleading
Example: Appearances may be deceptive.

Arabic:	خادِع، مُضَلِّل
Chinese (Simplified):	骗人的
Chinese (Traditional):	騙人的
Czech:	podvodný, klamný
Danish:	bedragerisk
Dutch:	misleidend
Estonian:	petlik
Finnish:	petollinen
French:	trompeur
German:	täuschend
Greek:	παραπλανητικός
Hungarian:	megtévesztő
Icelandic:	blekkjandi
Indonesian:	mengecoh
Italian:	ingannevole

Japanese:	あざむくような
Korean:	속이는, 믿을 수 없는
Latvian:	maldinošs
Lithuanian:	apgaulingas
Norwegian:	bedragersk, villedende
Polish:	oszukańczy
Portuguese (Brazil):	enganoso
Portuguese (Portugal):	enganador
Romanian:	înşelător
Russian:	обманчивый
Slovak:	klamlivý
Slovenian:	varljiv
Spanish:	engañoso
Swedish:	bedräglig, vilseledande
Turkish:	aldatıcı

See also: deception, deceptively

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: de·cep·tive
Pronunciation: di-'sep-tiv
Function: adjective
: tending or having capacity to deceive <deceptive tradepractices> —compare FRAUDULENT, MISLEADING

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

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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