Associations to the word «Deceptive»

DECEPTIVE, adjective. Misleading, likely or attempting to deceive.

DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING, noun. An exaggerated advertising that is attempting to deceive

DECEPTIVE CADENCE, noun. (music) a falling cadence in which the ear expects the a dominant chord to resolve to the tonic, but resolves to something else (usually a submediant chord) instead.

DECEPTIVE CADENCES, noun. Plural of deceptive cadence

DECEPTIVE, adjective. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure".

DECEPTIVE, adjective. Designed 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"; "shoddy business practices".