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cheating

cheat
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [cheet]
    • /tʃit/
    • /tʃiːt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [cheet]
    • /tʃit/

Definitions of cheating word

  • noun cheating an instance of rule-breaking 3
  • noun cheating infidelity 3
  • verb with object cheating to defraud; swindle: He cheated her out of her inheritance. 1
  • verb with object cheating to deceive; influence by fraud: He cheated us into believing him a hero. 1
  • verb with object cheating to elude; deprive of something expected: He cheated the law by suicide. 1
  • verb without object cheating to practice fraud or deceit: She cheats without regrets. 1

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Origin of cheating

First appearance:

before 1325
One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English chet (noun) (aphetic for achet, variant of eschet escheat); cheten to escheat, derivative of chet (noun)

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Cheating

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

cheating popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

cheating usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for cheating

noun cheating

  • dishonesty — lack of honesty; a disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.
  • deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
  • lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
  • deceit — Deceit is behaviour that is deliberately intended to make people believe something which is not true.
  • duplicity — deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing. Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, trickery. Antonyms: candidness, directness, honesty, straightforwardness.

adjective cheating

  • duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
  • dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
  • unprincipled — lacking or not based on moral scruples or principles: an unprincipled person; unprincipled behavior.
  • deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
  • underhanded — underhand.

Antonyms for cheating

noun cheating

  • frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
  • honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
  • truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
  • openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.

adjective cheating

  • honest — honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person.

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