Word Meanings - DECEPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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 , a cadence
Additional info about word: DECEPTIVE
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 , a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECEPTIVE)
- Colorable
- Specious
- ostensible
- deceptive
- dressed
- tinged
- warped
- Deceitful
- Deceptive
- delusive
- fraudulent
- fallacious
- false
- Untrue
- erroneous
- sophistical
- spurious
- fabrication
- counterfeit
- mendacious
- sham
- mock
- bogus
- unfaithful
- fib
- falsity
- fiction
- dishonorable
- faithless
- Illusive
- vision try
- unreal
- disappointing
- fugitive
- imaginary
- chimerical
- illusory
- Perfidious
- treacherous
- traitorous
- disloyal
- insidious
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECEPTIVE)
Related words: (words related to DECEPTIVE)
- FUGITIVELY
In a fugitive manner. - TINGIS
A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix. - DETECTOR BAR
A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch. - FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - VISIONARY
1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given - INSIDIOUS
insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - IMAGINARY
Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - FAITHLESS
1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true - DRESSINESS
The state of being dressy. - ILLUSIVENESS
The quality of being illusive; deceptiveness; false show. - BOGUS
Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. - CHIMERICAL
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive. - EXPOSEDNESS
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation. - WARP KNITTING
A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side. - UNFAITHFUL
1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His - ILLUSIVELY
In a illusive manner; falsely. - ERRONEOUS
1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. "Erroneous circulation." Arbuthnot. Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Sir I. Newman. 2. Misleading; - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - COTINGA
A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers. - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - BOOTING
Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. Sir. J. Harrington. - FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - UNDRESS
To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe. - GREETING
Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - WAITINGLY
By waiting. - MOUNTING
1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond. - WASTING
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. - DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands. - STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - YELTING
The Florida and West Indian red snapper ; also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis. - DEBATING
The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.