deceiver vs imitator

imitator vs deceiver

deceiver and imitator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
deceiver	Yes	No	No	No
imitator	Yes	No	No	No

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

deceiver: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
imitator: someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

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

deceiver (noun)	imitator (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who copies the words or behavior of another
	someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another

Difference between deceiver and imitator

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