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strategic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????????? (strat?gikós, “of or for a general", also "a treatise on strategy”), from ????????? (strat?gós, “the leader or commander of an army, a general”), from ??????? (stratós, “army”) + ??? (ág?, “I lead, I conduct”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /st???ti?.d??k/
- Rhymes: -i?d??k
Adjective
strategic (comparative more strategic, superlative most strategic)
- of or pertaining to strategy
- Synonyms: strategical, (rare) strategetic, (rare) strategetical
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Romanian
Etymology
From French stratégique.
Adjective
strategic m or n (feminine singular strategic?, masculine plural strategici, feminine and neuter plural strategice)
- strategic
Declension
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deceptive
English
Etymology
From Middle French déceptif, from Latin d?cept?vus, from d?cipi? (“I deceive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.?s?p.t?v/
Adjective
deceptive (comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive)
- Likely or attempting to deceive.
- Synonym: misleading
- 1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, p. 521,[1]
- […] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;
- 1789, Thomas Holcroft (translator), The History of My Own Times by Frederick the Great, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 163,[2]
- […] at the opening of the campaign, the French, after various deceptive attempts on different places, suddenly invested Tournay.
- 1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter 2, p. 10,[3]
- language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
- 1978, Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 2, p. 13,[4]
- […] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.
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- See also Thesaurus:deceptive
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