Communication

Synonyms for deceptive

The synonym for deceptive recorded in this bank is misleading, in the sense "designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for deceptive

misleadingadjective, in the sense "designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day deceptive is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineCommunication

designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

The deceptive calm in the eye of the storm.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

misleading

Same sentence, swapped: The misleading calm in the eye of the storm.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

illogical
amiss
adrift

Where deceptive turns up in the game

deceptive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play deceptive

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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