Synonyms of deluding

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adjective

as in misleading

tending or having power to deceive

the deluding appearance of the surface of the river, which is actually quite fast-moving

Synonyms & Similar Words

• misleading
• deceptive
• false
• deceiving
• delusive
• deceitful
• delusory
• incorrect
• specious
• beguiling
• fallacious
• ambiguous
• fraudulent
• lying
• inaccurate
• subtle
• trick
• cunning
• dishonest
• distracting
• crooked
• confounding
• wily
• wrong
• treacherous
• perplexing
• crafty
• puzzling
• subtile
• faithless
• counterfeit
• artificial
• duplicitous
• artful
• devious
• mendacious
• phoney
• slick
• sneaky
• shifty
• untrustworthy
• untruthful
• tricky
• fake
• sly
• insidious
• foxy
• underhand
• underhanded
• perfidious
• forged
• defrauding
• shady
• guileful
• dissembling
• bewildering
• phony
• insincere
• sneaking
• evasive
• hypocritical
• trickish
• bogus
• knavish
• feigned
• spurious
• sham
• ambidextrous
• equivocal
• circuitous
• jive
• double-dealing
• fast
• backhanded
• two-faced
• left-handed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• direct
• forthright
• plain
• open
• straightforward
• aboveboard
• illuminating
• frank
• candid
• straight
• nondeceptive
• outspoken
• explanatory
• clarifying
• revealing
• revelatory
• truthful
• honest
• openhearted
• free-spoken
• trustworthy
• plainspoken
• foursquare
• elucidative

deluding

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verb

present participle of delude

as in fooling

to cause to believe what is untrue

we deluded ourselves into thinking that the ice cream wouldn't affect our diet

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fooling
• tricking
• deceiving
• kidding
• misleading
• misinforming
• hoodwinking
• duping
• gulling
• conning
• teasing
• misguiding
• bamboozling
• suckering
• hoaxing
• humbugging
• bluffing
• snookering
• cozening
• cheating
• juggling
• stinging
• snowing
• beguiling
• catching
• having
• spoofing
• gaffing
• stringing along
• burning
• sucking in
• having on
• faking out
• taking in
• gammoning
• hornswoggling
• buffaloing
• doing a number on
• leading one up the garden path
• leading one down the garden path
• defrauding
• pulling one's leg
• sticking
• shortchanging
• fleecing
• pulling the wool over one's eyes
• swindling
• rooking
• mulcting
• chiseling
• putting on
• chiselling
• hustling
• diddling
• bleeding
• squeezing
• skinning
• flimflamming
• euchring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• exposing
• revealing
• uncovering
• telling
• disclosing
• debunking
• unmasking
• undeceiving
• showing up
• divulging
• disabusing
• disillusioning
• unveiling
• uncloaking
• disenchanting