Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Deceptive has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
"the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"
"deliberately deceptive packaging"
"a misleading similarity"
"statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
Likely or attempting to deceive.
"The calm weather was deceptive, as a fierce storm was already gathering on the horizon."
The word deceptive comes from the Middle French déceptif and ultimately from the Latin dēceptīvus. It is derived from the Latin verb dēcipiō, which means "to deceive."