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| Main Entry: | misleading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, confusing |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, catchy, deceitful, delusive, disingenuous, evasive, fallacious, false, inaccurate, perplexing, puzzling, specious, spurious, tricky, wrong, beguiling, bewildering, casuistical, confounding, deceiving, deluding, delusory, demagogic, distracting, sophistical |
| Antonyms: | honest, truthful |
| Main Entry: | mislead |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give someone the wrong idea, information |
| Synonyms: | bait, beguile, betray, bilk, bluff, bunk, cheat, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross*, dupe, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entice, fool, fudge*, gull, hoax, hoodwink*, hose*, inveigle, juggle, lie, lure, misinform, misrepresent, outwit, overreach, pervert, put on*, rip off*, rook, scam, seduce, shaft, snow*, take in, tempt, trick, victimize, illude, lead astray, lead on, misdirect, misguide, pull wool over eyes, rope in |
| Antonyms: | advise, counsel, guard, lead, protect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy*, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced*, won't fly, wrong |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, insincere |
| Synonyms: | artful, astute, clandestine, counterfeit, crafty, cunning, deceptive, delusive, designing, disingenuous, double-dealing, duplicitous, fallacious, false, feline, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hypocritical, illusory, indirect, insidious, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading, rascal, roguish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, stealthy, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, untrustworthy, untruthful, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, delusory, guileful, impostrous |
| Notes: | deceitful means intended to deceive or cheat while deceptive means causing one to believe what is not true or likely to mislead someone |
| Antonyms: | faithful, frank, honest, loyal, open, sincere, trustworthy, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary, beguiling, deceiving, deluding |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | dishonest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lying, untruthful |
| Synonyms: | backbiting*, bent, cheating, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, designing, disreputable, double-dealing, elusive, false, fraudulent, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, recreant, shady, shifty, sinister, slippery*, sneaky, traitorous, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unctuous, underhanded, unfair, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, villainous, wily, bluffing, deceiving, double-crossing, guileful, hoodwinking, sneaking, swindling |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, ethical, fair, frank, honest, moral, open, scrupulous, trustworthy, truthful, principled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evasive, mysterious |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, baffling, cagey, deceitful, deceptive, equivocal, evanescent, fallacious, fleeting, fraudulent, fugitive, greasy, illusory, incomprehensible, insubstantial, intangible, misleading, occult, phantom, puzzling, shifty, shy, slippery, subtle, transient, transitory, tricky, volatile, difficult to catch, elusory, fugacious, imponderable, indefinable, stonewalling, unspecific |
| Antonyms: | confronting, facing, inviting, attracting, encountering, enticing |
| Main Entry: | equivocal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doubtful, uncertain |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, ambivalent, borderline, disreputable, dubious, evasive, fishy*, fuzzy*, hazy*, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled, oblique, obscure, open, problematic, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unintelligible, vague, amphibological, clear as mud, clouded, muzzy, unexplicit, with mixed feelings |
| Antonyms: | certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain, sure, unequivocal, unquestionable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | evasive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful, tricky |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, cagey, cunning, deceptive, devious, elusive, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, shifty, slippery, sly, unclear, vague, casuistic, casuistical, dissembling, elusory, equivocating, prevaricating, shuffling, sophistical, stonewalling |
| Antonyms: | direct, forthright, honest, ready, straight, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | fallacious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, wrong |
| Synonyms: | deceptive, delusive, erroneous, fictitious, fishy*, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off*, phony, spurious, unfounded, unreal, unreasonable, unsound, untrue, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, ungrounded, unreasoned, way off |
| Antonyms: | correct, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fictitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | untrue, made-up |
| Synonyms: | apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bogus*, chimerical, counterfeit, deceptive, delusive, dishonest, ersatz*, factitious, fake, false, fanciful, fantastic, fashioned, feigned, illusory, imaginary, imagined, improvised, made, make-believe, misleading, mock, mythical, phony, queer, romantic, sham*, simulated, spurious, synthetic, unreal, concocted, cooked-up, created, delusory, fabricated, faked, fictional, fictive, figmental, hyped up, invented, suppositious, supposititious, trumped-up |
| Antonyms: | actual, certain, confirmed, factual, genuine, real, sincere, sure, true, truthful, proven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusory/illusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive, false |
| Synonyms: | apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious |
| Antonyms: | certain, factual, real, sure, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, delusive, double-dealing*, false, mendacious, misleading, perfidious, shifty, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, two-timing, unreliable, untruthful, wrong, committing perjury, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, equivocating, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, misrepresenting, misstating, prevaricating |
| Antonyms: | direct, frank, honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meretricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gaudy, flashy |
| Synonyms: | blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, garish, glaring, insincere, loud, misleading, ornate, phony, plastic*, sham, showy, spurious, superficial, tawdry, trashy, put-on, tinsel |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, unembellished, undecorated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perfidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | treacherous |
| Synonyms: | deceitful, deceptive, double-dealing*, faithless, false, insidious, misleading, recreant, shifty*, slick*, snake in the grass, traitorous, two-faced*, two-timing, undependable, unfaithful, unreliable, untrustworthy, betraying, double-crossing, unloyal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puzzling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confusing |
| Synonyms: | abstruse, ambiguous, baffling, difficult, enigmatic, hard, incomprehensible, inexplicable, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, misleading, obscure, perplexing, surprising, unaccountable, unclear, unfathomable, bewildering, beyond one, mystifying |
| Antonyms: | intelligible, understandable, comprehendible |
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | artificial, counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, affected, assumed, bogus*, dummy, ersatz*, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, lying, make-believe, misleading, mock, phony, plaster*, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, simulated, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, untrue |
| Antonyms: | real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trumped up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made up |
| Synonyms: | bogus, deceitful, dishonest, fake, false, falsified, fictitious, fishy, framed, fraudulent, imaginary, incorrect, invalid, lying, misleading, phony, sham, unfounded, unsound, untrue, concocted, cooked up, cooked-up, devised, fabricated, invented, made up |
| Main Entry: | two-faced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful |
| Synonyms: | artful, crafty, cunning, deceptive, dishonest, double-dealing, foxy, fraudulent, hypocritical, insincere, knavish, lying, misleading, shifty, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhanded, untruthful, backstabbing, beguiling, deceiving, guileful |
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