trickster vs traitor

traitor vs trickster

trickster and traitor both are nouns.

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

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

trickster: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
traitor: a person who says one thing and does 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, 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, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, liar, prevaricator, misleader, charlatan, mountebank, obscurantist, sandbagger, two-timer, utterer.

trickster (noun)	traitor (noun)
someone who plays practical jokes on others	someone who betrays his country by committing treason
someone who leads you to believe something that is not true	a person who says one thing and does 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 traitor

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