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)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

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
• 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
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• 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-
• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• BOOTING
  Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. Sir. J. Harrington.
• 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.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.