Word Meanings - SHAM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug. "A mere sham." Bp. Stillingfleet. Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. Addison. 2. A false front,

Additional info about word: SHAM

1. That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug. "A mere sham." Bp. Stillingfleet. Believe who will the solemn sham, not I. Addison. 2. A false front, or removable ornamental covering. Pillow sham, a covering to be laid on a pillow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHAM)

• Counterfeit
• Cheat
• trick
• juggle
• fraud
• artifice
• fabrication
• pretense
• ruse
• sham
• Deceit
• imposition
• deception
• double dealing
• delusion
• circumvention
• guile
• bewilderment
• treachery
• insidiousness
• indirection
• duplicity
• cunning
• false
• Untrue
• erroneous
• fallacious
• sophistical
• spurious
• deceptive
• counterfeit
• mendacious
• mock
• bogus
• unfaithful
• fib
• falsity
• fiction
• dishonorable
• faithless
• Shadow
• Umbration
• reflection
• image
• unsubstantiality
• immaterial
• phantom
• attendant
• Supposititious
• Fictitious
• ascititious
• adventitious
• fancied
• imaginary

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHAM)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to SHAM)

• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• IMAGINARY
  Existing only in imagination or fancy; not real; fancied; visionary; ideal. Wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills and fancied tortures Addison. Imaginary calculus See under Calculus. -- Imaginary expression or quantity
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• JUGGLERESS
  1. A female juggler. T. Warton.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• BIRD FANCIER
  1. One who takes pleasure in rearing or collecting rare or curious birds. 2. One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.