trickster vs pretender

pretender vs trickster

trickster and pretender both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
pretender: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

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

trickster (noun)	pretender (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	a person who makes deceitful pretenses
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
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 pretender

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