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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Deceptive \De*cep"tive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]ceptif. See {Deceive}.] Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as a deceptive countenance or appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. --Trench. {Deceptive cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: deceptive adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" [syn: {delusory}] 2: tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" [syn: {misleading}]
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