Word Meanings - DELUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke. 2. To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden. Syn. --
Additional info about word: DELUDE
1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke. 2. To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden. Syn. -- To mislead; deceive; beguile; cajole; cheat; dupe. See Deceive.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELUDE)
- Betray
- Deceive
- delude
- dupe
- circumvent
- ensnare
- dishonor
- manifest
- indicate
- reveal
- Cajole
- Tempt
- lure
- coat
- flatter
- wheedle
- cheat
- inveigle
- Trick
- beguile
- gull
- take in
- over reach
- mislead
- betray
- entrap
- Disappoint
- deceive
- frustrate
- baffle
- vex
- mortify
- defeat
- foil
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELUDE)
Related words: (words related to DELUDE)
- SPECTACLE
An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually, - SPERMATOCYTE
See SPERMOBLAST - CAJOLERY
A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn. - SPECIFICNESS
The quality or state of being specific. - SPERMATIC
Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. Spermatic cord , the cord which suspends the testicle within the scrotum. It is made up of a connective tissue sheath inclosing the spermatic duct and accompanying - FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - SPERMATICAL
Spermatic. - SPECTROGRAPH
An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum. A photograph or picture of a spectrum. -- Spec`tro*graph"ic , a. --Spec`tro*graph"ic*al*ly , adv. --Spec*trog"ra*phy , n. - SPECTATORSHIP
1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak. - SPECE
Species; kind. Chaucer. - BAFFLE
1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. - CIRCUMVENTOR
One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning. - SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPENDTHRIFT
One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis. - SPEED COUNTER
A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter. - ENTRAP
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men. A golden mesh, to entrap the hearts of - SPENCE
despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately - SPERMATOZOOID
A spermatozoid. - SPERGE
A charge of wash for the still. Knight. - SPERMOPHYTE
Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace phænogam. - OUTPREACH
To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull. - ASPER
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon. - ANGIOMONOSPERMOUS
Producing one seed only in a seed pod. - OOSPERM; OOESPERM
The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoön in impregnation. Balfour. - DISPENSE
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott. 2. - MISPENSE
See HALL - METEMPTOSIS
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, - INDISPENSABLENESS
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. - SUSPENSORY
Of or pertaining to a suspensorium. (more info) 1. Suspended; hanging; depending. 2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray. - DISPERSION
The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values - JASPERATED
mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate. - DISRESPECTABILITY
Want of respectability. Thackeray.