Word Meanings - GUILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GUILE)

• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Deceit
• Cheat
• imposition
• trick
• fraud
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• bewilderment
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• Design
• Contemplation
• pur pose
• intention
• plan
• delineation
• sketch
• drawing
• artfulness
• contrivance
• intent
• project
• scheme
• Trick
• Artifice
• machination
• wile
• cheat
• juggle
• antic
• vagary
• finesse
• sleight
• legerdemain
• Wile
• Guile
• craft
• art
• device
• plot
• design

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GUILE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to GUILE)

• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• ANTICLY
  Oddly; grotesquely.
• ANTICHLOR
  Any substance used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.