Word Meanings - LEGERDEMAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sleight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEGERDEMAIN)

• Trick
• Artifice
• contrivance
• machination
• guile
• stratagem
• wile
• fraud
• cheat
• juggle
• antic
• vagary
• finesse
• sleight
• deception
• imposition
• delusion
• legerdemain

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LEGERDEMAIN)

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

Related words: (words related to LEGERDEMAIN)

• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• ANTICLY
  Oddly; grotesquely.
• ANTICHLOR
  Any substance used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• 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
• 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.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• ANTICIPANT
  Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.
• ANTICOHERER
  A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The
• ANTIC
  "Lords of antic fame." Phaer. 2. Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. The antic postures of a merry-andrew. Addison. The Saxons . . . worshiped many idols, barbarous in name, some monstrous, all antic for shape. Fuller. (more info) 1.
• ANTICIPATIVE
  Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.
• 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.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• ANTICOUS
  Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.
• INFANTICIDE
  The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. (more info) antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• 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
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• 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