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deluder | deluded |

As a noun deluder

is someone who deludes.

As an adjective deluded is

being affected by delusions.

As a verb deluded is

past tense of delude.

deluder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who deludes
  • *{{quote-book, year=1887, author=Mabel Collins, title=Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But I am one who wish that Time, the great deluder , were not so over-masterful. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1919, author=Camilla Kenyon, title=Spanish Doubloons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=James Joyce, title=Ulysses, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer? }}

    deluded

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being affected by delusions.
    • He was deluded to think that she cared in the slightest.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (delude)