deceptive

de·cep·tive  (d-sptv)

adj.

Deceptive or tending to deceive.

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de·ceptive·ness n.

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deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv]

adj

1. likely or designed to deceive; misleading appearances can be deceptive

2. (Music / Classical Music) Music (of a cadence) another word for interrupted [3]

deceptively  adv

deceptiveness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	deceptive - causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" delusory unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"
	2.	deceptive - designed 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"; "shoddy business practices" misleading, shoddy dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

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deceptive

adjective

1. misleading, false, fake, mock, ambiguous, unreliable, spurious, illusory, specious, fallacious, delusive Appearances can be deceptive.

2. dishonest, deceiving, fraudulent, treacherous, hypocritical, crafty, sneaky, two-faced, disingenuous, deceitful, untrustworthy, underhand, insincere, duplicitous, guileful Her worst fault is a strongly deceptive streak.

Translations

deceptive [dɪˈseptɪv] ADJ → engañoso

deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] adj → trompeur/euse

deceptive

adj → irreführend; similarity → täuschend; simplicity → trügerisch; to be deceptive → täuschen, trügen (geh); appearances are or can be deceptive → der Schein trügt

deceptive [dɪˈsɛptɪv] adj (likely to deceive) → ingannevole; (meant to deceive) → ingannatore/trice