Deluded vs Deceived - What's the difference?
deluded | deceived |
Being affected by delusions.
(delude)
(deceive)
To trick or mislead.
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, date=April 26
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, title=Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :
, work=The Onion AV Club
As verbs the difference between deluded and deceived
is that deluded is past tense of delude while deceived is past tense of deceive.As an adjective deluded
is being affected by delusions.deluded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was deluded to think that she cared in the slightest.
Verb
(head)deceived
English
Verb
(head)deceive
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(deceiv)citation, page= , passage=Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.” }}