deceptiveadjective
uk/dɪˈsep.tɪv/us/dɪˈsep.tɪv/C2 making you believe something that is not true:
It's deceptive - from the outside the building looks small, but inside it's very big.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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deceptively
adverb uk/dɪˈsep.tɪv.li/us/dɪˈsep.tɪv.li/
The plan seemed deceptively simple (= it seemed simple but was not).
deceptiveness
noun [ U ] uk/dɪˈsep.tɪv.nəs/us/dɪˈsep.tɪv.nəs/