a. | 1. | Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions;
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Adj. | 1. | deceptive - causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" Synonyms: delusory |
2. | deceptive - tending 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" Synonyms: misleading |