DECEIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deceiver mean? 

• DECEIVER (noun)
  The noun DECEIVER has 1 sense:

1. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

  Familiarity information: DECEIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECEIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster

Hypernyms ("deceiver" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deceiver"):

figurehead; front; front man; nominal head; straw man; strawman (a person used as a cover for some questionable activity)

utterer (someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins)

two-timer (someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else)

sandbagger (someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you)

obscurantist (a person who is deliberately vague)

charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)

misleader (someone who leads astray (often deliberately))

liar; prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)

fake; faker; fraud; imposter; impostor; pretender; pseud; pseudo; role player; sham; shammer (a person who makes deceitful pretenses)

imitator; impersonator (someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another)

dissembler; dissimulator; hypocrite; phoney; phony; pretender (a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives)

bluffer; four-flusher (a person who tries to bluff other people)

fortune hunter (a person who seeks wealth through marriage)

counterfeiter; forger (someone who makes copies illegally)

finagler; wangler (a deceiver who uses crafty misleading methods)

falsifier (someone who falsifies)

defalcator; embezzler; peculator (someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use)

betrayer; double-crosser; double-dealer; traitor; two-timer (a person who says one thing and does another)

dodger; fox; slyboots (a shifty deceptive person)

decoy; steerer (a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot))

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

Derivation:

deceive (cause someone to believe an untruth)