deceiver vs impersonator

impersonator vs deceiver

deceiver and impersonator both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

Difference between deceiver and impersonator

Words related to "impersonator"

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