deceiver vs sham

sham vs deceiver

deceiver and sham both are nouns.

deceiver is not an adjective while sham is an adjective.

deceiver is not a verb while sham is a verb.

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

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

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

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

deceiver (noun)	sham (noun)
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

deceiver (adjective)	sham (adjective)
	adopted in order to deceive

deceiver (verb)	sham (verb)
	make believe with the intent to deceive
	make a pretence of

Difference between deceiver and sham

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