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Definitions: Deceptive |
DeceptiveAdjective1. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure". 2. Tending 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deceptive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: DeceptiveSynonyms: delusory (adj), misleading (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Adjective: deceived; Verb: deceiving; cunning; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, covinous; delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum vulgus. |
Reasoning, | Deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive; irrelevant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deceptive |
| English words defined with "deceptive": artifice ♦ Deceptive cadence, deceptiveness, Deceptory, delusively, device, dishonest, dishonorable, dodger, Double-handed ♦ Elusory ♦ false, fox ♦ gimmick ♦ hollow, honest, honorable ♦ Insidious disease ♦ Leasy ♦ meretriciousness, misleading ♦ obliquity, optical illusion ♦ Phenacite, Pseudomorph ♦ ruse ♦ scrupulous, Serbonian, Sirenical, slyboots, speciousness ♦ twist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deceptive": Accepted ♦ machination, misleading advertising ♦ Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 ♦ United States Federal Trade Commission. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deceptive": Fallacy, Fallax. (references) |
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Business | Advertising must be completely free from deceptive practices such as misinformation or pressure tactics. (references) | |
The Chilean customer is beginning to become aware of "consumer rights", and it is more common that unhappy clients report irregular situations, unsatisfactory service, defective products, and deceptive propaganda to SERNAC, Servicio Nacional del Consumidor (National Consumer Service). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mongolia | The law does not prohibit proselytizing, but limits it by forbidding use of incentives, pressure, or deceptive methods to introduce religion. (references) |
Economic History | Zambia | Small-scale trademark infringement occurs for some packaged goods through copied or deceptive packaging. (references) |
Italy | Trademarks may be assigned to other users provided such action does not involve deceptive trade practices. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | Bulgaria is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a signatory to the following agreements: the Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property; the Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcast Organizations; the Geneva Phonograms Convention; the Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source of Goods; the Madrid Agreement on the International Classification and Registration of Trademarks; the Patent Cooperation Treaty; the Universal Copyright Convention; the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration; the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purpose of Patent Protection; the Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol, the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants; the Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks; the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks; the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification; and the Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs. (references) |
Trade | Ireland | The Merchandise Marks Act of 1887, as amended by the Consumer Information Act of 1978, prohibits false or misleading trade marks and product descriptions and other deceptive indications. (references) |
Worker Rights | Lithuania | Many are lured by deceptive offers of jobs such as household helpers, bar dancers, or waitresses. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing. So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. R.S.K. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Senator Carl Levin | Enron was a deceptive enterprise. Whether or not it's criminal or not is going to be left to a prosecutor or a Justice Department investigation and prosecution. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | That the revenue of the ensuing year will not fall short of that received in the one now expiring there are indications which can scarcely prove deceptive. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This mode of aiding such works is also in its nature deceptive, and in many cases conducive to improvidence in the administration of the national funds. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Deceptive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Deceptive" is used about 233 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.57% | 232 | 19,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 233 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deceptive": appearances are deceptive ♦ be deceptive ♦ Deceptive cadence. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deceptive advertising | 15 |
deceptive | 14 |
deceptive trade practice | 12 |
deceptive trade practice act | 8 |
deceptive graph | 5 |
deceptive evangelism | 4 |
advertisement deceptive | 3 |
deceptive texas trade | 3 |
ads deceptive | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deceptive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | bedrieglik (deceitful, delusive, fallacious). (various references) | |
Albanian | zhgënjyes (disappointing, fallacious, illusory), mashtrues (ambidextrous, artful, bilker, bluffer, bouncer, catchy, cheat, Crimp, deceitful, deceiver, delusive, delusory, diddler, dishonest, dodger, double, double dealing, double-dealer, finagler, fraud, fraudulent, guileful, gyp, humbug, hustler, impostor, Jack-in-the-box, mendacious, misleading, mountebank, pettifogger, pettifogging, phoney, quack, racketeer, rascal, rascally, rogue, sandman, shuffler, skin, snide, swindler, trickster, twister, two-tongued). (various references) | |
Arabic | كاذب (bogus, delusive, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, flash, lying, phony, pseudo, sham, simulate, snide, spurious, unreal, untrue, untruthful), مضلل (deceitful, false, illusive, misguiding, misleading, perverting), مضل (beguiler, delusive, misleading, perversive), مخادع (artful, bluff, bluffer, crafty, deceitful, delusive, devious, dishonest, disingenuous, double, double dealing, double-tongued, face, false, fraudulent, hustler, illusive, illusory, indirect, insincere, misguiding, misleading, sly, trickish, tricky, underhand, wily), خادع (bluffy, crafty, deceitful, delusive, delusory, dishonest, double dealing, fallacious, false, fool, illusive, illusory, insincere, misleading, rip off, trickish, tricky, wily). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лъжлив (bogus, deceitful, delusive, delusory, double, double-tongued, elusory, false, lying, mendacious, misleading, mock, perjurious, phantasmagoric, pretended, quack, shifty, spoof, tinsel, truthless, untrue, untruthful, vain), измамен (deceitful, done, double dealing, fallacious, put-up-on, screwed up, unreal), измамлив (delusive, delusory, fraudulent, guileful, illusory, unsound). (various references) | |
Chinese | 欺骗 (Bamboozle, Bamboozled, Bamboozling, Deceit, Deceive, Deceived, Deceiving, Deception, Delude, Deluded, Deluding, Foxed, Foxing, fraud, fraudulent, humbug, Impostrous, Imposturous, Kidded, Kidding, ripoff, rip-off, Tricked, tricked-out, Tricking). (various references) | |
Czech | ošidný, klamný (delusory, fallacious, false, illusive, illusory, misleading, untrue). (various references) | |
Danish | vildledende maerke (deceptive markt), vildledende emballage (bluff package, deceptive package), synsbedrag (deceptive appearance, optical illusion), narre-emballage (bluff package, deceptive package), begrænset konvention til undertrykkelse af falske eller vildledende oprindelsesangivelser (Restricted Union on the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Origin). (various references) | |
Dutch | misleidend (delusive, fallacious), bedrieglýk (contrived, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, misleading). (various references) | |
Esperanto | erariga (delusive, fallacious). (various references) | |
Farsi | فریبنده (Attractive, Captious, Glamorous, Sophisticate, Tempter, Witch), فریبا, فریب امیز (Deceitful, Shifty), گول زننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | pettävä (deceitful, fallacious), petollinen (deceitful, delusive, false, fraudulent, treacherous), erehdyttävä (fallacious, misleading). (various references) | |
French | dupeur (deceiver, delusive, delusory), trompeur (deceitful, deceiver, delusive, delusory), illusoire (delusive, delusory). (various references) | |
German | täuschend (beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusively, delusory, feinting, foxing, hoodwinking, mystifying). (various references) | |
Greek | απατηλόσ (catchy, colorable, deceitful, delusive, elusive, elusory, fallacious, fraudulent, hollow, illusive, illusory, specious, tricky). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אכזב (disappointing, failing, unreliable), כזב (disappointed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csalfa (delusive, false, vain), álnok (deceitful, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, double faced, false-hearted, felon, hollow-hearted, perfidious, treacherous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | palsu (bogus, deceitful, fake, pseudo), menipu (cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dupe, hoodwink, outfox). (various references) | |
Italian | ingannevole (crafty, deceitful, delusive, dodgy, elusive, false, misleading, tricky). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 欺瞞的 (fraudulent). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎま"てき (fraudulent). (various references) | |
Manx | molteyragh (captivating, fallacious, fraudulent, insidious), kialgagh (calculated, calculating, circumventory, crafty, deceitful, deceiving, fallacious, fly, guileful, illusive, insidious, perfidious, seditious, treacherous, tricky, wily). (various references) | |
Norwegian | villedende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eceptiveday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | enganoso (catch, delusive, misleading). (various references) | |
Romanian | amãgitor (baffler, cheating, deceiver, deluder, delusive, mendacious, seducer, seducing, specious), înşelãtor (ambidexter, cheat, colourable, deceitful, delusive, delusory, double-dealer, manipulator, mendacious, specious). (various references) | |
Russian | обманчивый (captious, deceitful, delusive, delusory, double meaning, double-meaning, illusive, misleading, specious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | obmanljiv (delusive, delusory). (various references) | |
Spanish | engañoso (deceitful, deceiving, delusive, delusory, dishonest, fallacious, false, guileful, misleading, treacherous, wrong), falaz (deceitful, delusive, fallacious). (various references) | |
Swedish | bedräglig (cheated, colorable, colourable, deceitful, delusive, delusory, elusive, fallacious, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, underhand). (various references) | |
Turkish | aldatici (deceitful, delusive, fallacious), aldatan (cheater, deceiver, imposter), aldatıcı (baffling, beguiling, catchy, colorable, colored, coloured, delusive, devious, dishonest, double dealing, elusory, fake, fallacious, googly, hype, illusive, illusory, indirect, specious, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky). (various references) | |
Ukranian | що вводить в оману (delusive, delusory), обманливий (captious, catchy, deceitful, delusive, delusory, elusory, fallacious, misleading). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dối trá (deceiful, double-tongued, fallacious, false-hearted, forked, treacherous), lừa dối (fallacious, false, gold brick), lừa bịp, đánh lừa; dễ l m cho lầm lẫn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fallacem, fallacia, fallax, falsa, falsae, falsam, falsas, false, falsi, falsis, falso, falsos, falsum, falsus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deceptive": deceptively, deceptiveness, deceptivenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "deceptive": nondeceptive. (additional references) | |
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"Deceptive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deceptives, decitive, decptive, deective. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deceptive" (pronounced duse"ptiv) |
| 7 | -u s e" p t i v | contraceptive, receptive, unreceptive. |
| 6 | -s e" p t i v | perceptive. |
| 4 | -p t i v | adaptive, adoptive, captive, corruptive, descriptive, disparages, disruptive, eruptive, preemptive, presumptive, redemptive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, active, addictive, additive, adjective, administrative, affective, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, collective, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, conductive, congestive, connective, consecutive, conservative, constructive, consultative, contemplative, cooperative, corrective, counterproductive, creative, cumulative, curative, decorative, defective, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, directive, disincentive, dispositive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, duplicative, effective, elective, elucidative, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hyperactive, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, indicative, ineffective, infective, infinitive, informative, initiative, injunctive, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, interpretive, introspective, intuitive, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, nonproductive, normative, nutritive, objective, obstructive, octave, operative, overactive, palliative, participative, pejorative, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, positive, predictive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, preventive, primitive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, prohibitive, projective, prospective, protective, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, recuperative, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, reproductive, respective, restive, restorative, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, secretive, sedative, seductive, selective, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, unattractive, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unproductive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vindictive, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-p-t-v" | |
-2 letters: deceive, evicted, evictee. | |
-3 letters: deceit, depict, device, evited, peeved, pieced. | |
-4 letters: cited, civet, deice, edict, evict, evite, peeve, piece, tepee, tepid, viced. | |
-5 letters: cede, cedi, cepe, cete, cite, deep, deet, dice, diet, dipt, dite, dive, edit, eide, epee, epic, etic, iced, peed, pice, pied, teed, tide, tied, veep, vice, vide, vied. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-p-t-v" | |
+2 letters: deceptively. | |
+3 letters: depreciative, nondeceptive. | |
+4 letters: deceptiveness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 63 65 70 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -.-. . .--. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01100101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c e p t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 0065 0070 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387169718286758871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Spoken 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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