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deceptable

deceptable adjective: vulnerable to deception.

Adjective

deceptable (comparative more deceptable, superlative most deceptable)

  1. (obsolete) Vulnerable to deception.
    • But as for popular Errors, they are more neerly founded upon an erroneous inclination of the people; as being the most deceptable part of Mankind and ready with open armes to receive the encroachments of Error.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3

Forms of deceptable

comparativemore deceptable
superlativemost deceptable

Questions about deceptable

What does deceptable mean?
Deceptable means vulnerable to deception.
What part of speech is deceptable?
Deceptable is an adjective.

Words near deceptable in the dictionary

  1. decephalizations
  2. decephalize
  3. decephalized
  4. decephalizes
  5. decephalizing
  6. deceptable
  7. deceptibility
  8. deceptible
  9. deception
  10. Deception Island
  11. deceptional

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