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Deceitful vs Intriguing - What's the difference?

deceitful | intriguing | Related terms |

Deceitful is a related term of intriguing.


As adjectives the difference between deceitful and intriguing

is that deceitful is deliberately misleading or cheating while intriguing is causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

As a verb intriguing is

.

As a noun intriguing is

an intrigue.

deceitful

English

Alternative forms

* deceiptful (obsolete) * deceiptfull (obsolete) * deceitfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • deliberately misleading or cheating
  • deceptive in multiple ways

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    intriguing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

    • Synonyms

    * fascinating, interesting, attractive

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intrigue.
  • * Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck
    • In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings , the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.