cheater vs fraud

fraud vs cheater

cheater and fraud both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheater	Yes	No	No	No
fraud	Yes	No	No	No

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

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
fraud: a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Other hyponyms of cheater 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, pretender, imitator, impersonator, fake, faker, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	fraud (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
	something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Difference between cheater and fraud

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.