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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Deceptive \De*cep"tive\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
deceptive
adjective
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
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