cheater vs pseudo

pseudo vs cheater

cheater and pseudo both are nouns.

cheater is not an adjective while pseudo is an adjective.

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

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

cheater: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
pseudo: 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, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

cheater (noun)	pseudo (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

cheater (adjective)	pseudo (adjective)
	(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of

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