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Deceptive - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Deceptive : adj
1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe
what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
[syn: delusory]
2: 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" [syn: misleading]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper
reality from our eyes. --Trench.
Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or
in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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