Meanings
plural deceivers
- A person who lies or deceives.
My memory my fond deceiver / Is turning all my past into pain / While I'm being raped by progress / Tomorrow's world is here to stay
1983, Matt Johnson, “The Sinking Feeling”, in Soul Mining, performed by The The
Synonyms & antonyms
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nounsomeone who leads you to believe something that is not true
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Anglo-Normandecevour
- Middle Englishdeceyvour
- Englishdeceiver
Inherited from Middle English deceyvour, from Anglo-Norman decevour; by surface analysis, deceive + -er. Displaced native Old English swica.
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Arabic غَشَّاش, خَدَّاع
- غَشَّاش (ḡaššāš)person who lies or deceives
- خَدَّاع (ḵaddāʕ)person who lies or deceives
Chinese Mandarin 欺詐者 /欺诈者
- 欺詐者 /欺诈者 (qīzhàzhě)person who lies or deceives
Czech podvodník, podvodnice
- podvodníkperson who lies or deceives
- podvodniceperson who lies or deceives
Dutch bedrieger, bedriegster
- bedriegerperson who lies or deceives
- bedriegsterperson who lies or deceives
Finnish huijari, pettäjä
- huijariperson who lies or deceives
- pettäjäperson who lies or deceives
French trompeur, trompeuse
- trompeurperson who lies or deceives
- trompeuseperson who lies or deceives
German Betrüger, Betrügerin
- Betrügerperson who lies or deceives
- Betrügerinperson who lies or deceives
Hebrew רמאי
- רמאי (rammai)person who lies or deceives
Hindi धोखा देनेवाला, धोखेबाज़
- धोखा देनेवाला (dhokhā denevālā)person who lies or deceives
- धोखेबाज़ (dhokhebāz)person who lies or deceives
- छली (chalī)person who lies or deceives
Indonesian penipu, pendusta
- penipuperson who lies or deceives
- pendustaperson who lies or deceives
Irish cealgaire
- cealgaireperson who lies or deceives
Italian ingannatore, ingannatrice
- ingannatoreperson who lies or deceives
- ingannatriceperson who lies or deceives
Japanese 詐欺師
- 詐欺師 (sagishi)person who lies or deceives
Latin dēceptor
- dēceptorperson who lies or deceives
Portuguese enganador, enganadora
- enganadorperson who lies or deceives
- enganadoraperson who lies or deceives
Russian обма́нщик, обма́нщица
- обма́нщик (obmánščik)person who lies or deceives
- обма́нщица (obmánščica)person who lies or deceives
Spanish embustero, embaucador
- embusteroperson who lies or deceives
- embaucadorperson who lies or deceives
- impostorperson who lies or deceives
- mentirosoperson who lies or deceives
- trapaceroperson who lies or deceives
Ukrainian дури́світ, ошука́ч
- дури́світ (durýsvit)person who lies or deceives
- ошука́ч (ošukáč)person who lies or deceives
- ошука́нець (ošukánecʹ)person who lies or deceives
- бма́нник (bmánnyk)person who lies or deceives
- дури́людок (durýljudok)person who lies or deceives
- дури́люд (durýljud)person who lies or deceives
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Cite this entry
deceiver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deceiver
“deceiver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deceiver. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “deceiver,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/deceiver.
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