Synonyms of deceived

deceived 1 of 2

adjective

as in deluded

Related Words

• deluded
• duped
• tricked
• erroneous
• untrue
• inaccurate
• confused
• misled
• misguided
• false
• inexact
• misinformed
• mistaken
• incorrect
• wrong

Dissimilar Words

• right
• correct
• true
• informed
• accurate
• exact
• precise

deceived

2 of 2

verb

past tense of deceive

as in tricked

to cause to believe what is untrue

he went to great lengths to deceive his family about the nature of his new job at the mall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tricked
• fooled
• misled
• duped
• suckered
• teased
• deluded
• gulled
• hoodwinked
• beguiled
• kidded
• snookered
• bamboozled
• conned
• misinformed
• humbugged
• cheated
• hoaxed
• cozened
• hornswoggled
• bluffed
• misguided
• caught
• sucked in
• stung
• buffaloed
• strung along
• juggled
• burned
• snowed
• gaffed
• spoofed
• had on
• had
• gammoned
• faked out
• took in
• defrauded
• swindled
• did a number on
• pulled one's leg
• pulled the wool over one's eyes
• shortchanged
• fleeced
• stuck
• led one down the garden path
• rooked
• put on
• mulcted
• flimflammed
• euchred
• hustled
• diddled
• bled
• skinned
• chiseled
• squeezed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undeceived
• revealed
• exposed
• uncovered
• unmasked
• disclosed
• told
• debunked
• showed up
• divulged
• unveiled
• disillusioned
• disenchanted
• disabused
• uncloaked

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deceived

Verb

The problem is, most people feel deceived when the person in front of them doesn't match the profile. — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 9 June 2026

Some people in Israel say Netanyahu, in a way, deceived Trump. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

Dana, falling in love with Zorro and out of love with Diego, and being deceived by both, is sublimely affecting. — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Part of the robot’s training was to handle situations in which its handlers have deliberately deceived it. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 6 July 2026

Campaigners have fought for years for acknowledgment that women were pressured, deceived and threatened into giving up their babies. — ABC News, 2 July 2026

In nearly half of all scams, 49% of the victims were also deceived into personally sending money to the scammers. — Samantha Elkins, NBC news, 30 June 2026

In the second half, the Paraguayan then deceived the Uzbek referee Ilgiz Tantashev into a yellow card for Michael Olise. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 5 July 2026

One is to emphasize Iago—the guileful, insinuating convincingness of this malicious supervillain, who works on Othello to the point where any reasonable man would be deceived and fooled and worked into a rage that can lead to such a catastrophe. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026