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- [gahyl]
- /gaɪl/
- /ɡaɪl/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [gahyl]
- /gaɪl/
Definitions of guile word
- noun guile insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity. 1
- noun guile Sly or cunning intelligence. 1
- noun guile cleverness, cunning 1
- noun guile deceit, trickery 1
- uncountable noun guile Guile is the quality of being good at deceiving people in a clever way. 0
- noun guile clever or crafty character or behaviour 0
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Origin of guile
First appearance:
before 1175 One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; Middle English < Old French < Germanic; akin to wile
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Guile
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
guile popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% 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".
guile usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for guile
noun guile
- trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- 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.
- sellout — an act or instance of selling out.
Antonyms for guile
noun guile
- honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
- truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- frankness — plainness of speech; candor; openness.
- uprightness — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- sincerity — freedom from deceit, hypocrisy, or duplicity; probity in intention or in communicating; earnestness.
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