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de·cep·tive
 deceptive
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- pronunciation:
- dih
sep
t
 v
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
able to or tending to deceive; misleading.
She is deceptive in pretending to agree.a tennis player with deceptive moves- synonyms:
- deceitful, delusive, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, misleading, unreal
- antonyms:
- truthful
- similar words:
- captious, counterfeit, evasive, factitious, feigned, meretricious, shifty, specious, spurious, tortuous, trick, tricky
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| related words: |
bum, false, insincere, phony, plausible, sly, two-faced, wily |
adverb + (adj.)deceptive
clearly, deliberately, entirely, equally, intentionally, potentially, similarly, somewhat, thoroughly, visually
(adj.)deceptive
+ adverb
bad
(adj.)deceptive
+ noun
accounting,
act,
advertising,
bookkeeping,
calm,
campaign,
charm,
claim,
conduct,
consumer,
convention,
cue,
diet,
dimension,
e-mail,
illusion,
label,
language,
lending,
loan,
male,
manner,
marketing,
message,
mortgage,
move,
nature,
offer,
practice,
pricing,
promotion,
provision,
quickness,
resolution,
rhetoric,
sales,
scheme,
shadow,
simplicity,
spam,
speed,
tactic,
technique,
telemarketing,
trade
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| derivations: |
deceptively (adv.), deceptiveness (n.) |
The word deceptive
contains the following part:
cap1, cip, capt, cept, -ceive, -ceit
Latin
root
that means to take, catch
  Example words:
accept, acceptable, acceptance, capability, capable, capacious, capacity, captive, capture, conceive, concept, deceive, deception, deceptive, except, exception, incapable, inconceivable, intercept, participant, participate, perceive, perceptive, percipient, precept, receive, reception, recipient, susceptible
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