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Trickster

Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.

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📖 Definitions of "Trickster"

noun

1
Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
2
One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
3
One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
4
An impish or playful person.

🔄 Synonyms of "Trickster"

6 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
deceivernoun	A person who lies or deceives.
practical jokernoun	Someone who instigates practical jokes; a prankster.
cheatverb	(intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
hoaxernoun	Someone who perpetrates hoaxes.
cheaternoun	Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
pranksternoun	One who performs pranks.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Trickster"

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Word	Definition
hoaxernoun	Someone who perpetrates hoaxes.
deceivernoun	A person who lies or deceives.
pranksternoun	One who performs pranks.
practical jokernoun	Someone who instigates practical jokes; a prankster.
cheaternoun	Someone who cheats; something that cheats.
cheatnoun	(countable) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
phonynoun	(informal) Anything fraudulent or fake.
cheatingnoun	An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
jokernoun	A person who makes jokes.
betrayernoun	Someone who betrays, or reveals confidential information; a squealer or informer.
jokenoun	Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
fraudnoun	(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
roguenoun	A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
traitornoun	Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.
hustlernoun	One who rushes or hurries; an energetic person.
crooknoun	A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
foxnoun	A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups:
shifternoun	One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
brer rabbitnoun	The hero of the Uncle Remus stories.
gypsternoun	A trickster or swindler.