Word Meanings - DUPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has been deceived or who is easily deceived; a gull; as, the dupe of a schemer. (more info) origin; equiv. to F. huppe hoopoe, a foolish bird, easily caught. Cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DUPE)

• Betray
• Deceive
• delude
• dupe
• circumvent
• ensnare
• dishonor
• manifest
• indicate
• reveal
• Cajole
• Tempt
• lure
• coat
• flatter
• wheedle
• cheat
• inveigle
• Cheat Overreach
• fleece
• silence
• trick
• gull
• cozen
• juggle
• defraud
• swindle
• beguile
• deceive
• deprive
• hoodwink
• prevaricate
• dissemble
• shuffle
• Cozen
• Circumvent
• overreach
• coax
• seduce
• Trick
• take in
• over reach
• mislead
• betray
• entrap

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DUPE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to DUPE)

• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• 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.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• 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
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• CAJOLE
  To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
• MANIFEST
  1. A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto. 2. A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• 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,
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.