Word Meanings - TRICKERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRICKERY)

• Chicanery
• Artifice
• subtlety
• sophistry
• subterfuge
• prevarication
• shift
• trickery
• dodge
• quibble
• mystification
• pettifogging
• underhandedness
• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• Drollery
• Fun
• whimsicality
• comicality
• buffoonery
• facetiousness
• pleasantry
• Guile
• treachery
• deceit
• insidiousness
• fraud
• hypocrisy
• Intrigue
• Cabal
• plot
• conspiracy
• machination
• design
• manoeuvres
• love affair
• amour
• ruse

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRICKERY)

• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to TRICKERY)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• 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
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• 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.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• 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
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REINSERT
  To insert again.