deceptive

Adjective Satellite

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
  • "deceptive calm"
• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
  • "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"
  • "deliberately deceptive packaging"

Adj

• Likely or attempting to deceive.

Examples

• Appearances can be deceptive.
• deceptive practices

Synonyms

delusory, misleading, shoddy, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious, deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful, fraudulent

Antonyms

honest, nonfraudulent, undeceitful, undeceptive, unmisleading

Related Words

+ -ing, collusive, covinous, deceit, deceive, deception, delusive, delusory, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, elusive, false, guileful, hallucinatory, illusive, illusory, insidious, insincere, misinforming, misleading, on, r, treacherous, tricky, untrue, wily