trickster vs impersonator

impersonator vs trickster

trickster and impersonator both are nouns.

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

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

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

trickster (noun)	impersonator (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
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

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