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guile
Overview of noun guile
The noun guile has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness -- (shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception)
2. craftiness, deceitfulness, guile -- (the quality of being crafty)
3. trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan -- (the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun guile
3 senses of guile
Sense 1
craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
=> shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
=> intelligence
=> ability, power
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
=> disingenuousness
=> dishonesty
=> unrighteousness
=> immorality
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> falsification, misrepresentaation
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun guile
1 of 3 senses of guile
Sense 3
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, humbug, put-on
=> jugglery
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun guile
3 senses of guile
Sense 1
craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
=> shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
Sense 2
craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
=> disingenuousness
Sense 3
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
Antonyms of noun guile
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Derived Forms of noun guile
Domain of noun guile
Domain Terms of noun guile
Familiarity of noun guile
guile used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun guile
3 senses of guile
Sense 1
craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
> shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
=> craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
=> insightfulness, acumen
=> knowingness
=> street smarts
Sense 2
craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
> disingenuousness
=> craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
=> artfulness
Sense 3
trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> fakery
=> indirection
=> trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> duplicity, double-dealing
=> cheat, cheating
=> delusion, illusion, head game
=> pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
=> imposture, impersonation
=> obscurantism
=> bluff, four flush
=> take-in
Meronyms of noun guile
3 senses of guile
Holonyms of noun guile
Grep of noun guile
guile
Grep of verb guile
beguile
Grep of adj guile
guileful
guileless
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