Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that swindles or plays tricks.
- n. A mischievous or roguish figure in myth or folklore, often an animal, who typically makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who practises tricks; a deceiver; a cheat.
- To play tricks.
Wiktionary
- n. A mythological figure responsible for teaching others through the use of guile and treason.
- n. One who performs a trick.
- n. An impish or playful person.
- n. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who plays practical jokes on others
- n. someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- n. a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
Etymologies
- Derived from trick + -ster. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the trickster is willing to become the prince of thieves in order to get power among the gods.”
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“The deadly trickster is for rogues and maybe rangers, basically some luck powers.”
“Lévi-Strauss’s argument hinges on two facts about the Native American trickster: (1) the trickster has a contradictory and unpredictable personality; (2) the trickster is almost always a raven or a coyote.”
“Stone is well known as a trickster, and for his ability to spin magic out of nothing, even an ordinary phone call.”
“The trickster was a pretended monk who dwelt there before me and at whose death I was present.”
“In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior.”
“Personally I'm okay with the artist as "trickster," but in this case the trickster-aspect manifests itself more in the area of the passive aggressive.”
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“Rushdie's Nobu is neither present nor dead; instead he is the "trickster," symbolizing a learning lesson Rushdie wanted to express.”
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“To me this IS a reboot, what makes it interesting is having a "trickster" figure like Jack, and the lovable bad guy Barbossa, and hopefully the ever-loyal sidekick Gibbs, entering a fresh new story.”
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“Loki, of course, is the name of the "trickster" of the gods in the Skaldic pantheon and one of the original trolls.”
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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MYTH - spooky creatures
takes the form of a, demon, teeth of iron, unicorn, forest spirit, magical eel, savage humanoid, one-horned animal, creature, headless humanoid, disease-bringing ..., rainbow-feathered... and 607 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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Steroids
Nouns that end in "ster". The -er suffix (as in blaster) doesn't count.
hamster, filibuster, aster, master, mister, baluster, banister, barrister, monster, plaster, semester, bister and 56 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
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( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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Big Top
roadshow, hooplah, derring do, acrobat, buffoonery, cavort, hijinks, gaiety, frolic, ringmaster, stilts, tightrope and 77 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (T)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
tabard, tadpole, taffeta, taffy, talisman, tallgrass, tam, tamarind, tamarack, tambourine, tango, tansy and 144 more...
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plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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rapscallion, jelly, umbilical, abracadabra, brackish, dell, embrocation, fret, goulash, hilarity, icicle, knickerbocker and 13 more...
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Jungian psychology
anima, animus, self, puer aeternus, dream, archetype, extrovert, introvert, night sea journey, individuation, myth, symbol and 20 more...
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The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
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floornow's Words
nifty, confused, chasity, staff, change, pneumatic, chlorophyll, trickster, antithesis, crafty, smooth, ceraceo and 20 more...
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