deceptive

Synonyms

beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading, specious;

Antonyms

aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward;

Near Antonyms

candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straight;

clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating;

revealing, revelatory;

honest, trustworthy, truthful;

Related Words

artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily;

crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful;

bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, phony (also phoney), sham, spurious;

insidious, perfidious, treacherous;

artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced;