"deceptive" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɪˈsɛp.tɪv/ Audio: En-us-deceptive.ogg Forms: more deceptive [comparative], most deceptive [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛptɪv Etymology: From Middle French déceptif, from Latin dēceptīvus, from dēcipiō (“I deceive”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*keh₂p-}}, {{der|en|frm|déceptif}} Middle French déceptif, {{der|en|la|dēceptīvus}} Latin dēceptīvus Head templates: {{en-adj}} deceptive (comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive)
  1. Likely or attempting to deceive. Synonyms: misleading, deceptive, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious [obsolete], deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful, fraudulent Derived forms: appearances are deceptive, deceptive advertising, deceptive cadence, deceptive cognate, deceptively, deceptiveness, deceptivity Translations (misleading, attempting to deceive): ἀπατηλός (apatēlós) (Ancient Greek), engañosu (Asturian), engañador (Asturian), измамен (izmamen) (Bulgarian), заблуждаващ (zabluždavašt) (Bulgarian), enganyós (Catalan), 迷惑的 (míhuò de) (Chinese Mandarin), klamný (Czech), zavádějící (Czech), ošidný (Czech), matoucí (Czech), falešný (Czech), podvodný (Czech), bedrieglijk (Dutch), onoprecht (Dutch), misleidend (Dutch), petollinen (Finnish), harhaanjohtava (Finnish), trompeur (French), qui induit en erreur (French), illusoire (French), mensonger (French), enganoso (Galician), betrügerisch (German), irreführend (German), trügerisch (German), מטעה (mat'é) (Hebrew), שקרי (shikrí) (Hebrew), megtévesztő (Hungarian), pettelikko (Ingrian), fabhtach (Irish), ingannevole (Italian), ginnal (Jamaican Creole), samfie (Jamaican Creole), 欺瞞的 (gimanteki) (alt: ぎまんてき) (Japanese), fallax (Latin), fallens (Latin), deceptivus (Latin), captiōsus (Latin), نیرنگباز (neyrang-bâz) (Persian), enganoso (Portuguese), enganador (Portuguese), обма́нчивый (obmánčivyj) (Russian), द्रुह्वन् (druhvan) (Sanskrit), mealltach (Scottish Gaelic), carach (Scottish Gaelic), cealgach (Scottish Gaelic), engañoso (Spanish), engañador (Spanish), delusivo [masculine] (Spanish), delusorio [masculine] (Spanish), bedräglig (Swedish), missvisande (Swedish), yanıltıcı (Turkish)
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          "text": "[…] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;",
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          "text": "[…] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.",
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          "ref": "1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, page 521:",
          "text": "[…] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;",
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          "ref": "1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 2, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13:",
          "text": "[…] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.",
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
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      "word": "欺瞞的"
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "deceptivus"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "captiōsus"
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      "code": "fa",
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      "roman": "neyrang-bâz",
      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "نیرنگباز"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "enganoso"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
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      "roman": "obmánčivyj",
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      "word": "обма́нчивый"
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      "code": "sa",
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      "word": "द्रुह्वन्"
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "carach"
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "cealgach"
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
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      "word": "delusorio"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "bedräglig"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "missvisande"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "misleading, attempting to deceive",
      "word": "yanıltıcı"
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