deceptive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: deceptive	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for deceptive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
deceptive adj causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" Synonym(s): deceptive, delusory 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" Synonym(s): deceptive, misleading, shoddy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Deceptive \Decep"tive\, a. [Cf. F. d[82]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.