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de·cep·tive
 deceptive
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- pronunciation:
- dih
sep
t
 v
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
able to or tending to deceive; misleading.
She is deceptive in pretending to agree.a tennis player with deceptive moves- synonyms:
- deceitful, delusive, false, fraudulent, illusive, illusory, misleading, unreal
- antonyms:
- truthful
- similar words:
- captious, counterfeit, evasive, factitious, feigned, meretricious, shifty, specious, spurious, tortuous, trick, tricky
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| related words: |
bum, false, insincere, phony, plausible, sly, two-faced, wily |
| derivations: |
deceptively (adv.), deceptiveness (n.) |
The word deceptive
contains the following part:
cap1, cip, capt, cept, -ceive, -ceit
Latin
root
that means to take, catch
  Example words:
accept, acceptable, acceptance, capability, capable, capacity, captive, capture, conceive, concept, deceive, deception, except, exception, incapable, inconceivable, intercept, participant, participate, perceive, receive, reception
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