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Synonyms for deceptive in English

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deceptive:
- dangerous; hazardous; risky; deceptive; perilous; unsafe; misleading; deceitful; untruthful; untrue; shoddy; delusory

English

Detailed Synonyms for deceptive in English

deceptive:

deceptive adj

deceptive
dangerous; hazardous; risky; deceptive; perilous; unsafe
- dangerous adj
- hazardous adj
- risky adj
- deceptive adj
- perilous adj
- unsafe adj
deceptive
deceptive; misleading; deceitful; untruthful; untrue
- deceptive adj
- misleading adj
- deceitful adj
- untruthful adj
- untrue adj
deceptive

– designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently ¹
deceptive; shoddy; misleading
– designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently ¹
- deceptive adj
  - the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm¹
  - deliberately deceptive packaging¹
- shoddy adj
  - shoddy business practices¹
- misleading adj
  - a misleading similarity¹
  - statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading¹
deceptive

– causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true ¹
deceptive; delusory
– causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true ¹
- deceptive adj
  - deceptive calm¹
- delusory adj
  - a delusory pleasure¹

Related Words for "deceptive":

deceptiveness, deceptively

Alternate Synonyms for "deceptive":

delusory; unreal
misleading; shoddy; dishonest; dishonorable

Related Definitions for "deceptive":

designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently¹
- the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm¹
- deliberately deceptive packaging¹
causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true¹
- deceptive calm¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University