English
Etymology
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From Middle French déceptif.
Pronunciation
Adjective
deceptive (comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive)
- Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive.
- deceptive advertising
- deceptive practices
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- language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
misleading, attempting to deceive
- Asturian: engañosu, engañador
- Bulgarian: измамен (bg) (izmamen), заблуждаващ (bg) (zabluždavašt)
- Catalan: enganyós, decebedor, deceptiu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 迷惑的 (zh) (míhuò de)
- Czech: klamný, zavádějící, ošidný, matoucí, falešný (cs) m, podvodný m
- Dutch: bedrieglijk (nl), onoprecht (nl), misleidend (nl)
- Finnish: petollinen (fi), harhaanjohtava (fi)
- French: trompeur (fr), qui induit en erreur, illusoire (fr), mensonger (fr) (note: décevant is a false friend meaning disappointing)
- Galician: enganoso
- German: betrügerisch, irreführend (de), trügerisch (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀπατηλός (apatēlós)
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- Hungarian: megtévesztő (hu)
- Irish: fabhtach
- Italian: ingannevole (it)
- Japanese: 欺瞞的 (ぎまんてき, gimanteki)
- Latin: fallax, fallens
- Persian: نیرنگباز (neyrangbāz)
- Portuguese: enganoso (pt), enganador (pt) m
- Russian: обма́нчивый (ru) (obmánčivyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: mealltach, carach, cealgach
- Spanish: engañoso (es), engañador
- Swedish: missledande, missvisande (sv)
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