Deceptive

Adjective

 * 1) misleading, likely or attempting to deceive

Derived terms

 * deceptive advertising
 * deceptive cadence
 * deceptive cognate

Related terms

 * deception
 * deceptively
 * deceive
 * deceit

Adverbs for Deceptive
palpably; grossly; detestably; obviously; cruelly; systematically; methodically; intentionally; purposely; maliciously; harmlessly; deliberately; childishly; innocently; teasingly; criminally; cleverly; astutely; adroitly; expertly; carefully; meanly; despicably; contemptibly; disgracefully; terribly.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: измамен, заблуждаващ
 * Czech:, zavádějící, ošidný
 * Dutch: bedrieglijk, onoprecht, misleidend
 * Finnish:
 * French: trompeur, qui induit en erreur, illusoire, mensonger (note: décevant is a false friend meaning disappointing)
 * German: ,


 * Hungarian: megtévesztő
 * Japanese: 欺瞞的な (gimanteki-na)
 * Russian: обманчивый, обманчивая , обманчивое
 * Scottish Gaelic:, carach, cealgach
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: missledande, missvisande