Delude Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-lo͝od
To cause to accept what is false, especially by trickery or misrepresentation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deceive
  2. mislead
  3. fool
  4. cozen
  5. trick
  6. beguile
  7. bamboozle
  8. dupe
  9. hoodwink
  10. betray
  11. bluff
  12. double-cross
  13. bilk
  14. cheat
  15. circumvent
  16. humbug
  17. take-in
  18. delude
  19. have
  20. four-flush
  21. lead-on
  22. victimize
Antonyms:
  1. be truthful
To cause to hold a false belief; deceive thoroughly:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deceive

Words Related to Delude

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • His paper presents evidence to show that there are ways in which learners delude themselves and can be misled by feedback.

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