: tending or having power to cause someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid : tending or having power to deceive a deceptive appearance a pitcher with a deceptive windup deceptively adverb deceptiveness noun Synonyms beguiling deceitful deceiving deluding delusive delusory fallacious false misleading specious

deceptive adjective uk / dɪˈsep.tɪv / us / dɪˈsep.tɪv / C2 making you believe something that is not true: It's deceptive - from the outside the building looks small, but inside it's very big. …

( dɪˈsɛptɪv) adj 1. likely or designed to deceive; misleading: appearances can be deceptive. 2. (Classical Music) music (of a cadence) another word for interrupted 3 deˈceptively adv deˈceptiveness n

Deceptive means intended to or tending to deceive —to lie, mislead, or otherwise hide or distort the truth. Deceptive is typically used to describe an action or something that deceives or is …

See Definition deceptive adjective 1 as in misleading tending or having power to deceive in his deceptive answer about the vehicle's history, the salesman said that the used car had never been hit by another car Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance misleading false deceitful deceiving specious ambiguous incorrect delusive beguiling delusory

Definitions of deceptive adjective designed to deceive or mislead “the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm” “deliberately deceptive packaging” synonyms: misleading, shoddy dishonest, dishonorable deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive adjective causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

adverb. uk / dɪˈsep.tɪv.li / us / dɪˈsep.tɪv.li /. in a way that is deceptive (= making you believe something that is not true): The plan seemed deceptively simple (= it seemed simple but was not). The tool is noisy to use and deceptively dangerous (= it is more dangerous than it seems). See.

deception noun [ C or U ] uk / dɪˈsepʃ ə n / us dishonest or illegal methods that are used to get something, or to make people believe that something is true when it is not: The couple were …

What is Deceptive Pricing? Deceptive pricing is the method by which retailers use deceptive means to trick the customers into thinking that they are paying a lower price for the product, than what they are actually supposed to.

us / dɪˈsiv /. to persuade someone that something false is the truth; trick or fool: Some parents try to deceive school officials and enroll their children in other districts. If you deceive yourself, …