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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true;
- Example: "deceptive calm"
- Example: "a delusory pleasure"
[syn: deceptive, delusory]

2. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently;
- Example: "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"
- Example: "deliberately deceptive packaging"
- Example: "a misleading similarity"
- Example: "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
- Example: "shoddy business practices"
[syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper
         reality from our eyes.                   --Trench.
   [1913 Webster]

   Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or
      in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

deceptive
    adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to
           believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory
           pleasure" [syn: deceptive, delusory]
    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" [syn: deceptive,
       misleading, shoddy]