| Main Entry: | hocus-pocus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sleight of hand |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, abracadabra, artifice, cant, chant, charm, cheating, chicanery, conjuring, deceit, deception, deception, delusion, flimflam, fraud, gibberish, gobbledegook, hoax, hocus, humbug, imposture, incantation, jargon, juggling, legerdemain, magic, magic, magic words, monkey business, mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo, mummery, mystification, nonsense, occultism, open sesame, rigmarole, sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors, spell, swindle, trick, trickery |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | abracadabra |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic word |
Synonyms: |
hocus-pocus, incantation, invocation, mumbo jumbo, open sesame, spell |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | fraud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trickery, deception |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bamboozlement, barratry, blackmail, cheat, chicane, chicanery, con, craft*, deceit, double-dealing, dupery, duping, duplicity, extortion, fake, fast one, fast shuffle, flimflam, fourberie, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwinking, hustle*, imposture, line, misrepresentation, racket, scam, sell, shakedown, sham*, sharp practice, skunk, smoke*, song and dance, song*, spuriousness, sting, string, swindle, swindling, treachery |
Antonyms: |
fairness, honesty, justice |
| Main Entry: | gibberish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense talk |
Synonyms: |
babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
Antonyms: |
sense |
| Main Entry: | hex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curse, spell |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, allure, bewitching, bewitchment, charm, conjuration, double whammy, enchantment, evil eye, hexing, hocus-pocus, jinx, magic, magic spell, mumbo jumbo, sorcery, voodoo, whammy |
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
Synonyms: |
apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts |
Antonyms: |
certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | imposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheating, con, craftiness, dissimulation, fraud, hoax, hocus-pocus, hypocrisy, illusion, imposture, stratagem, trick, trickery |
Antonyms: |
forthrightness, honesty |
| Main Entry: | imposture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fraud, trick |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cheat, con, copy, counterfeit, deceit, deception, fabrication, fake, feint, fiddle, flimflam, forgery, gambit, hoax, hocus-pocus, illusion, imitation, impersonation, imposition, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, phony, ploy, pretense, pretension, put-on, quackery, ruse, sell*, sham, sleight, spoof, stratagem, swindle, wile |
Antonyms: |
honesty, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | incantation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spell, magic |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, ala kazam, bewitchment, black magic, chant, charm, conjuration, conjuring, enchantment, formula, hex, hocus-pocus, hoodoo, hymn, invocation, mumbo-jumbo, necromancy, open sesame, rune, sorcery, voodoo, witchcraft, wizardry |