deceptive
adjective /dɪˈseptɪv/
/dɪˈseptɪv/
Word Family
- deceive verb
- deceit noun
- deceitful adjective
- deception noun
- deceptive adjective
- likely to make you believe something that is not true synonym misleading
- a deceptive advertisement
- Appearances can often be deceptive (= things are not always what they seem to be).
- the deceptive simplicity of her writing style (= it seems simple but is not really)
- The firm was found guilty of publishing a misleading and deceptive advertisement.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- highly
- very
- dangerously
- …
- can be deceptive
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Old French deceptif, -ive or late Latin deceptivus, from decept- ‘deceived’, from decipere ‘to deceive’.