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Deceptive vs Intriguing - What's the difference?

deceptive | intriguing | Related terms |

Deceptive is a related term of intriguing.


As adjectives the difference between deceptive and intriguing

is that deceptive is while intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

As a verb intriguing is

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As a noun intriguing is

an intrigue.

deceptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • misleading, likely or attempting to deceive
    • deceptive advertising
    deceptive practices
  • * Trench
    • language altogether deceptive , and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * deceptive advertising * deceptive cadence * deceptive cognate

    Related terms

    * deception * deceptively * deceive * deceit

    intriguing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.