Word Meanings - KNAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. kna, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak. 2. Any

Additional info about word: KNAVE

AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. kna, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak. 2. Any male servant; a menial. Chaucer. He's but Fortune's knave, A minister of her will. Shak. 3. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain. "A pair of crafty knaves." Shak. In defiance of demonstration, knaves will continue to proselyte fools. Ames. Note: "How many serving lads must have been unfaithful and dishonest before knave -which meant at first no more than boy -- acquired the meaning which it has now !" Trench. 4. A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack. Knave child, a male child. Chaucer. Syn. -- Villain; cheat; rascal; rogue; scoundrel; miscreant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KNAVE)

• Impostor
• Cheat
• deceiver
• distemper
• charlatan
• knave
• Rascal
• Rogue
• scoundrel
• vagabond
• scamp
• villain
• Scoundrel
• Villain
• swindler
• miscreant
• reprobate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of KNAVE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to KNAVE)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• CHARLATANISM
  Charlatanry.
• CHARLATANIC; CHARLATANICAL
  Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• SCAMPER
  To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp,
• RASCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• IMPOSTOR
  One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton. Syn. -- Deceiver; cheat; rogue. See Deceiver.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• 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.
• SCOUNDRELISM
  The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• VAGABONDAGE
  The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
• COMMENDATARY
  One who holds a living in commendam.
• OUTVILLAIN
  To exceed in villainy.
• DISCAMP
  To drive from a camp. Holland.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• BROGUES
  Breeches. Shenstone.