beguiling

Synonyms

artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily;

Antonyms

artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning;

Near Antonyms

obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed;

aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished;

childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly;

unforced, unstudied;

trustful, trusting;

Related Words

astute, facile, glib, sharp;

crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous;

backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced;

circuitous, circular, roundabout;

clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover;

calculating, plotting;