offender vs trickster

trickster vs offender

offender and trickster both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
offender	Yes	No	No	No
trickster	Yes	No	No	No

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

offender: a person who transgresses moral or civil law
trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Other hyponyms of offender include abuser, maltreater, aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, barrater, barrator, convict, beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, delinquent, juvenile delinquent, defector, deserter, ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff, transgressor, malfeasant, molester, no-show, nonattender, truant, culprit, perpetrator, fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer, principal, backslider, recidivist, reversionist, miscreant, reprobate, shark, pettifogger, shyster, evildoer, sinner, supplanter, usurper, war criminal.

offender (noun)	trickster (noun)
a person who transgresses moral or civil law	someone who plays practical jokes on others
	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

Difference between offender and trickster

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