deceit vs cheat

cheat vs deceit

deceit and cheat both are nouns.

deceit is not a verb while cheat is a verb.

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

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

deceit: the act of deceiving
cheat: a deception for profit to yourself

Other hyponyms of deceit include fakery, indirection, chicane, chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile, double-dealing, duplicity, cheating, delusion, head game, illusion, feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation, impersonation, imposture, obscurantism, bluff, four flush, take-in.

deceit (noun)	cheat (noun)
the act of deceiving	a deception for profit to yourself
the quality of being fraudulent	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
a misleading falsehood	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

deceit (verb)	cheat (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

Difference between deceit and cheat

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