trickster vs imitator

imitator vs trickster

trickster and imitator both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

trickster (noun)	imitator (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	someone who copies the words or behavior of another
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

Difference between trickster and imitator

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