Synonyms for Deceptive:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • deceptive,
  • delusory.
  •arty (adjective)
  • pretentious,
  • Popularized,
  • Flaunting.
  •complicated (adjective)
  • tortuous.
  •counterfeit (adjective)
  • more hollywood,
  • most hollywood,
  • mis leading,
  • puton,
  • planter,
  • pre-tended,
  • more put on,
  • most faked,
  • most pirate,
  • most puton,
  • snide,
  • crockest,
  • more pirate,
  • more puton,
  • wont fly,
  • pirate,
  • most imitation,
  • more faked,
  • more imitation,
  • most put on,
  • more put-on,
  • plantest,
  • pre tended,
  • most put-on,
  • mis-leading.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • in direct,
  • most astucious,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • under-handed,
  • de signing,
  • under handed,
  • more deceiving,
  • more rascal,
  • most deceiving,
  • most rascal,
  • de-signing,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • more astucious,
  • more impostrous,
  • more beguiling,
  • slick,
  • most beguiling,
  • doubledealing,
  • in-direct,
  • most feline,
  • more feline,
  • un trustworthy,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • most impostrous,
  • double-dealing.
  •deceptive (adjective)
  • double-crossing,
  • fraudulent,
  • forged,
  • misleading,
  • flimflam,
  • Falsified.
  •dishonest (adjective)
  • bum,
  • seeming,
  • shifty,
  • sneaky,
  • slippery,
  • disingenuous,
  • fake,
  • lying,
  • Deceiving,
  • fishy,
  • plausible,
  • beguiling,
  • serpentine,
  • cunning,
  • untrue,
  • Deluding,
  • mock,
  • ambiguous,
  • subtle,
  • Imposturous,
  • designing,
  • oblique,
  • crafty,
  • off,
  • catchy,
  • scheming,
  • underhanded,
  • indirect,
  • phony,
  • tricky,
  • rascal,
  • foxy.
  •elusive (adjective)
  • in-substantial,
  • most unspecific,
  • most stonewalling,
  • most phantom,
  • more phantom,
  • most elusory,
  • more elusory,
  • more stonewalling,
  • evanescent,
  • in-tangible,
  • difficult catch,
  • in comprehensible,
  • un specific,
  • in-definable,
  • in substantial,
  • un-specific,
  • fugacious,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • more unspecific,
  • in definable,
  • in tangible.
  •evasive (adjective)
  • casuistic,
  • sophistical,
  • casuistical.
  •fallacious (adjective)
  • more deluding,
  • un reasonable,
  • in-valid,
  • un-sounder,
  • in correct,
  • un-sound,
  • most deluding,
  • un grounded,
  • un sound,
  • un-real,
  • in valid,
  • in-correct,
  • more ungrounded,
  • most ungrounded,
  • un-soundest,
  • illogical,
  • un reasoned,
  • mis-taken,
  • more reasonless,
  • un sounder,
  • most reasonless,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-reasoned,
  • un-grounded,
  • mis taken.
  •fallible (adjective)
  • Errable,
  • in question.
  •false (adjective)
  • simulated,
  • Forsworn,
  • bogus,
  • mythomaniac,
  • scoundrelly,
  • fictional,
  • crooked,
  • rascally.
  •false-hearted (adjective)
  • false hearted.
  •fictitious (adjective)
  • trumped-up,
  • figmental,
  • invented,
  • hyped up,
  • cooked-up.
  •hypocritical (adjective)
  • more feigning,
  • more caviling,
  • jivier,
  • pietistic,
  • more smoothspoken,
  • hypo critical,
  • self righteous,
  • more moralistic,
  • most smooth spoken,
  • smooth tongued,
  • jiviest,
  • most smoothspoken,
  • most moralistic,
  • smooth spoken,
  • smoothspoken,
  • most smooth-spoken,
  • lefthanded,
  • most feigning,
  • smoothtongued,
  • more smooth-spoken,
  • hypo-critical,
  • un-natural,
  • most caviling,
  • selfrighteous,
  • more smooth spoken,
  • left handed,
  • feigning.
  •imaginary (adjective)
  • hypothetical,
  • dreamed-up,
  • Non-existent,
  • apparitional.
  •imitative (adjective)
  • parrot,
  • simulant,
  • mimetic.
  •insidious (adjective)
  • like a snake in the grass.
  •insincere (adjective)
  • in sincerer,
  • in-sincerest,
  • more dissimulating,
  • in-sincere,
  • in-sincerer,
  • dis simulating,
  • in sincere,
  • in sincerest,
  • dis-simulating,
  • most dissimulating,
  • insincere.
  •invented (adjective)
  • in vented,
  • in-vented.
  •invisible (adjective)
  • unperceivable,
  • ungraspable,
  • not in sight,
  • wraithlike,
  • Perdu,
  • masked,
  • unnoticeable,
  • unseeable,
  • unapparent,
  • unviewable,
  • ghostly.
  •lying (adjective)
  • more falsifying,
  • most inventing,
  • mis representing,
  • fibbing,
  • mis-stating,
  • more fibbing,
  • mis stating,
  • most falsifying,
  • most fibbing,
  • more misrepresenting,
  • more inventing,
  • most misrepresenting,
  • mis-representing,
  • most misstating,
  • in venting,
  • in-venting,
  • more misstating.
  •lying under oath (adjective)
  • Perjurious.
  •mala fide (adjective)
  • mala fide.
  •mealy-mouthed (adjective)
  • mealymouthed,
  • mealy mouthed.
  •mendacious (adjective)
  • mendacious.
  •notional (adjective)
  • notional.
  •perfidious (adjective)
  • snake grass,
  • un-dependable,
  • un-loyal,
  • un dependable,
  • un loyal,
  • more betraying,
  • most unloyal,
  • snake the grass,
  • more unloyal,
  • most betraying,
  • perfidious.
  •perjured (adjective)
  • Perjured.
  •pharisaic (adjective)
  • pharisaic.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • mealy-mouthed.
  •roguish (adjective)
  • impish.
  •sly (adjective)
  • more conniving,
  • most plotting,
  • most conniving,
  • more plotting.
  •specious (adjective)
  • in accurate.
  •spurious (adjective)
  • more unauthentic,
  • most pretend,
  • un-genuine,
  • unauthentic,
  • dummiest,
  • un-authentic,
  • ungenuine,
  • un genuine,
  • pre tend,
  • un authentic,
  • most ungenuine,
  • more ungenuine,
  • more pretend,
  • dummier,
  • most unauthentic.
  •tortuous (adjective)
  • in volute,
  • in-volute.
  •treacherous (adjective)
  • pre-carious,
  • in securer,
  • un-healthiest,
  • un healthiest,
  • un safest,
  • un healthier,
  • un-safer,
  • in secure,
  • un stablest,
  • in-securest,
  • un safe,
  • un-stablest,
  • un stabler,
  • in-secure,
  • un healthy,
  • un-safe,
  • pre carious,
  • un-stable,
  • in securest,
  • un safer,
  • fly by night,
  • un-safest,
  • most dissembled,
  • un-stabler,
  • un stable,
  • un-healthy,
  • in-securer,
  • more dissembled.
  •two-faced (adjective)
  • two faced,
  • most backstabbing,
  • more backstabbing,
  • twofaced.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • on the quiet,
  • sub-rosa,
  • lubricious,
  • dirty dealing,
  • dirty-dealing.
  •unfounded (adjective)
  • unproven,
  • without foundation,
  • off-base,
  • Foundationless,
  • without basis.
  •untrue (adjective)
  • out line,
  • un-true,
  • un-truest,
  • counter-factual,
  • most imprecise,
  • un-truer,
  • un true,
  • un truest,
  • un truer,
  • counter factual.
  •untruthful (adjective)
  • devious,
  • untruthful.
  •wily (adjective)
  • more streetwise,
  • most streetwise.

• n.

  •
  • improper,
  • unauthorized,
  • clandestine,
  • wrongful,
  • unlawful,
  • illicit,
  • illegal,
  • unconstitutional.
  •deceptive (noun)
  • dishonorable,
  • unreal.
  •imitation (noun)
  • pinchbeck.
  •phoniness (noun)
  • dissimulatings,
  • hypocriticals,
  • faithlesses,
  • two faceds,
  • lyings,
  • deceptives,
  • perfidiou,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • mendaciou,
  • backhandeds,
  • unfaithfuls,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • pretentiou,
  • ambidextrou,
  • un-trues,
  • falses,
  • untrues,
  • deviou,
  • duplicitou,
  • un faithfuls,
  • twofaceds,
  • snides,
  • dissemblings,
  • untruthfuls,
  • deceitfuls,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • evasives,
  • dis ingenuousness,
  • disingenuou,
  • shifties,
  • two-faceds,
  • un trues,
  • un-faithfuls.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • delusive,
  • illusive.
  •
  • illusory.
  •counterfeit
  • imitative.

Paraphrases for Deceptive:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    deceitful, fraudulent, specious, misleading.
  • Proper noun, singular
    misleading.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    false, dishonest, fallacious, spurious, misguided, deceit, confusing, Cheated, untrue, delusive, unrealistic, corrupt.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    illusory, mendacious, untruthful.

Antonyms for Deceptive:

• adj.

  • dishonest
    open, true, forthright, honest, genuine, frank, upright, truthful, aboveboard, sincere, valid, real, trustworthy, reliable.
  • Other antonyms:
    honorable, scrupulous, revelatory, revealing, openhearted, plainspoken, just, outspoken, clarifying, illuminating, decent, direct, straight, free-spoken, ethical, straightforward, conscientious, foursquare, plain, elucidative, explanatory.

Homophones for Deceptive:

• disputative.