cheat vs pretender

pretender vs cheat

cheat and pretender both are nouns.

cheat is a verb but pretender is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No
pretender	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pretender is a hyponym of cheat; that is, pretender is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than cheat:

cheat: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
pretender: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

Other hyponyms of cheat include bluffer, four-flusher, chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler, decoy, steerer, dodger, fox, slyboots, betrayer, double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer, defalcator, embezzler, peculator, falsifier, finagler, wangler, counterfeiter, forger, fortune hunter, figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheat (noun)	pretender (noun)
a deception for profit to yourself	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme	a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

cheat (verb)	pretender (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
deprive somebody of something by deceit
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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