Word Meanings - SELF-DECEIVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deceived or misled respecting one's self by one's own mistake or error.

Related words: (words related to SELF-DECEIVED)

• MISLIKE
  Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.
• MISLIN
  See MASLIN
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• MISLAY
  1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was
• MISLUCK
  Ill luck; misfortune.
• MISLIVE
  To live amiss.
• MISLEAD
  To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton. Syn. -- To delude; deceive.
• DECEIVER
  One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• MISLY
  Raining in very small drops.
• MISLIKER
  One who dislikes.
• RESPECTIVELY
  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.
• MISLEARN
  To learn wrongly.
• MISLEN
  See MASLIN
• DECEIVE
  deceive; de- + capere to take, catch. See Capable, and cf. Deceit, 1. To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• MISLE
  To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• IRRESPECTIVE
  1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers.