deceptively
16
5.7
- adverb
- /dɪˈsɛptɪvli/
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engañosamente
- The cake looks deceptively simple, but it has many layers of flavor.
- deceptively simple
- deceptively easy
- deceptively simple question
Now this box seems compact but it's deceptively large.
- Now this box seems compact but it's deceptively large.
- Don't die is deceptively simple and endlessly expansive.
- Now, it is infinitely more productive to be openly biased than to be deceptively neutral, right?
- So here's the strategies for eliminating fears, and they're deceptively simple, but very, very powerful.
- I read closely word by word, sentence by sentence, pondering each deceptively minor decision the writer had made.
- Ben is deceptively strong because he's not that large, but he's very, very strong.
- It is deceptively simple, but Clark Egan manages the pace and the tension so perfectly.
Examples
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Below, a valley stretched all the way across which, from a distance, seemed deceptively narrow.
Fiction book (1995) -
A major battleground in insurance litigation arises from this deceptively simple question: How did the accident happen?
Academic text (1997) -
Those are deceptively good, but not too hot.
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That is a deceptively large box.
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I think at its heart, this week's topic is a deceptively dark one.
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Now this box seems compact but it's deceptively large.
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Many a truly difficult mathematical problem can be stated in an approachable and deceptively simple way.
Academic text (2009) -
Ben is deceptively strong because he's not that large, but he's very, very strong.
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McGillivray's complaint was deceptively simple, and its implications have been largely overlooked by historians.
Academic text (2008) -
It is deceptively simple, but Clark Egan manages the pace and the tension so perfectly.
Synonyms
4
3.5
In a way that tries to trick or cheat other people
2
5.3
In a way that gives someone the wrong idea
2
8.4
In a dishonest way, by pretending not to know something
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6.3
In a way that tries to trick someone
1
7.7
In a way that seems true but is not
In a way that seems true but is actually false
In a way that makes people believe something that is not true
In a way that shows someone is dishonest or evasive
Antonyms
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deceptively comes from the parts de- 'away' and capere 'to take', the same root behind capture and the idea of being 'taken in'. So, something described as deceptively X gives a false impression or 'tricks' you into seeing it as different from what it really is.