Delude synonyms

dĭ-lo͝od'

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fool
To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly:
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beguiling
That beguiles or beguile.
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bamboozle
To confuse; bewilder.
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trick
To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
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deceive
To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
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mislead
To deceptively trick into something wrong.
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deceptive
The definition of deceptive is something that is misleading or that is presenting a lie.
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delusional
Suffering from or characterized by delusions
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delusive
Tending to delude.
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delusory
Tending to deceive; delusive.
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fallacious
Tending to mislead; deceptive:
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phantasmagoric
Characterized by or pertaining to rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
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unrealistic
Dealing with ideas or matters in a way that is not realistic; impractical or visionary
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artifice
Trickery or craft
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chimera
An imaginary monster made up of grotesquely disparate parts.
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circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
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cozenage
An act or example of cozening.
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deception
The use of deceit.
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delusion
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
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delusions-of-grandeur
Plural form of delusion of grandeur
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folie-de-grandeur
Delusions of grandeur; megalomania
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ignis fatuus
A deceptive hope, goal, or influence; delusion
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illusion
The misleading image resulting in such a false impression
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mare-s-nest
An extraordinarily complicated situation.
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paranoia
Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
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phantasm
(Philos.) A mental impression of a real person or thing
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phantasma
Alternative form of phantasm.
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phantasmagoria
A fantastic sequence of haphazardly associative imagery, as seen in dreams or fever.
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wile
The definition of a wile is a trick or seducing behavior.
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will-o'-the-wisp
Alternative spelling of will o' the wisp.
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wishful-thinking
(Idiomatic) Decision-making based on self-delusion.
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beguile
To deprive (someone) of or out of something by deceit; cheat
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bilk
To manage to get away from; elude
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cheat
To violate rules deliberately, as in a game:
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circumvent
To avoid or evade
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cozen
To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive.
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delude
To delude is defined as to trick someone or to cause someone to believe something that is untrue.
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dupe
To dupe is to trick or deceive someone.
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hoodwink
The definition of hoodwink is to trick or deceive someone.
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victimize
To punish someone unjustly.
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be truthful (antonym)
deceive, fool
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betray
To make known unintentionally:
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bluff
To bluff is to pretend something that is not true.
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double-cross
To betray by acting in contradiction to a prior agreement.
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humbug
To cheat, swindle.
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take-in
To receive into your home for the purpose of processing for a fee.
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have
(--- Informal) To get the better of, especially by trickery or deception:
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four-flush
(Stud Poker) To bluff when one holds four cards of the same suit (four flush) instead of the five in a true flush
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pull-the-wool-over-someone-s-eyes
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take-for-a-ride
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honest (related)
(Obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
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lead-on
(Idiomatic) to mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.
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brainwash (related)
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gullible (related)
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ignorant (related)
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self-centred (related)
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narrow-minded (related)
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selfish (related)
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led-astray (related)
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naive (related)
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hallucination
A false or mistaken idea.
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Delude Sentence Examples

  • These foreigners introduced new life into politics and the press, and made it fashionable for educated Maltese to delude themselves with the idea that the Maltese were Italians, because a few of them could speak the language of the peninsula.

  • Everywhere preparations were made not for ceremonious welcomes (which he knew Pierre would not like), but for just such gratefully religious ones, with offerings of icons and the bread and salt of hospitality, as, according to his understanding of his master, would touch and delude him.

  • They delude themselves that they are going to influence and/or modify the priorities of the company.

  • We should delude ourselves by entertaining the hope that matters would mend by-and-by..

  • But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.

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