trickster vs pseudo

pseudo vs trickster

trickster and pseudo both are nouns.

trickster is not an adjective while pseudo is an adjective.

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

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

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

trickster (noun)	pseudo (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 mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts

trickster (adjective)	pseudo (adjective)
	(often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of

Difference between trickster and pseudo

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