What is another word for deceptive?
382 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dɪsˈɛptɪv], [ dɪsˈɛptɪv], [ d_ɪ_s_ˈɛ_p_t_ɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for deceptive:- all (adjective)
- arty (adjective)
- complicated (adjective)
- counterfeit (adjective)
- deceitful (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- evasive (adjective)
- fallacious (adjective)
- fallible (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- false-hearted (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- hypocritical (adjective)
- imaginary (adjective)
- imitative (adjective)
- insidious (adjective)
- insincere (adjective)
- invented (adjective)
- invisible (adjective)
- lying (adjective)
- lying under oath (adjective)
- mala fide (adjective)
- mealy-mouthed (adjective)
- mendacious (adjective)
- notional (adjective)
- perfidious (adjective)
- perjured (adjective)
- pharisaic (adjective)
- pretentious (adjective)
- roguish (adjective)
- sly (adjective)
- specious (adjective)
- spurious (adjective)
- tortuous (adjective)
- treacherous (adjective)
- two-faced (adjective)
- underhand (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- untrue (adjective)
- untruthful (adjective)
- wily (adjective)
- deceptive (noun)
- imitation (noun)
- phoniness (noun)
- other synonyms
- counterfeit
Synonyms for Deceptive:
adj.
•all (adjective) •arty (adjective) •complicated (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- in sincerer,
- in-sincerest,
- more dissimulating,
- in-sincere,
- in-sincerer,
- dis simulating,
- in sincere,
- in sincerest,
- dis-simulating,
- most dissimulating,
- insincere.
- unperceivable,
- ungraspable,
- not in sight,
- wraithlike,
- Perdu,
- masked,
- unnoticeable,
- unseeable,
- unapparent,
- unviewable,
- ghostly.
- 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.
- snake grass,
- un-dependable,
- un-loyal,
- un dependable,
- un loyal,
- more betraying,
- most unloyal,
- snake the grass,
- more unloyal,
- most betraying,
- perfidious.
- 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.
- 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.
n.
•deceptive (noun) •imitation (noun) •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:
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- illusory.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
deceitful, fraudulent, specious, misleading.
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Proper noun, singular
misleading.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Other Related
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Adjective
illusory, mendacious, untruthful.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Deceptive:
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adj.
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dishonest
open, true, forthright, honest, genuine, frank, upright, truthful, aboveboard, sincere, valid, real, trustworthy, reliable.
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Other antonyms:
honorable, scrupulous, revelatory, revealing, openhearted, plainspoken, just, outspoken, clarifying, illuminating, decent, direct, straight, free-spoken, ethical, straightforward, conscientious, foursquare, plain, elucidative, explanatory.
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dishonest