deceptive
Likely or attempting to deceive.
Example
“deceptive practices”
Synonyms
- misleading
Related words
- nondeceptive
- undeceptive
- appearances are deceptive
- deceptive advertising
- deceptive cadence
- deceptive cognate
- deceptively
- deceptiveness
- deceptivity
- self-deceptive
Word history
From Latin "dēceptīvus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “deceptive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.