trickster vs fake

fake vs trickster

trickster and fake both are nouns.

trickster is not an adjective while fake is an adjective.

trickster is not a verb while fake is a verb.

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

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

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

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

trickster (noun)	fake (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	(football) a deceptive move made by a football player
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts	a person who makes deceitful pretenses

trickster (adjective)	fake (adjective)
	not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article
	fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

trickster (verb)	fake (verb)
	speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths
	make a copy of with the intent to deceive
	tamper, with the purpose of deception

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