Need another word that means the same as “beguiled”? Find 5 synonyms and 30 related words for “beguiled” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Beguiled” are: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “beguiled” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
captivated | Filled with wonder and delight. |
charmed | Strongly attracted. I felt that I had a charmed life. |
delighted | Filled with wonder and delight. A delighted smile. |
enthralled | Filled with wonder and delight. |
entranced | Filled with wonder and delight. |
allure | The power to entice or attract through personal charm. People for whom gold holds no allure. |
cheating | A deception for profit to yourself. |
chicanery | The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose. Storylines packed with political chicanery. |
cunning | Ingenious. Cunning men often pass for wise. |
deception | An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers. Obtaining property by deception. |
deceptive | Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently. The deceptive calm in the eye of the storm. |
delude | Make (someone) believe something that is not true. Too many theorists have deluded the public. |
delusive | Giving a false or misleading impression. Delusive expectations. |
dishonesty | A fraudulent or deceitful act. The dismissal of thirty civil servants for dishonesty and misconduct. |
dissimulation | Concealment of one’s thoughts, feelings, or character; pretence. An attempt at dissimulation. |
duplicity | Deceitfulness. The president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress. |
enchant | Hold spellbound. The scenery began to enchant her. |
enthrall | Hold spellbound. |
fascinate | Attract; cause to be enamored. The snake charmer fascinates the cobra. |
feint | Any distracting or deceptive maneuver (as a mock attack. You would would you said Bob feinting punches back at them. |
fraud | A person who makes deceitful pretenses. Mediums exposed as tricksters and frauds. |
fraudulence | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. |
fraudulent | Intended to deceive – S.T.Coleridge. Fraudulent share dealing. |
guile | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. He used all his guile and guts to free himself from the muddle he was in. |
hoodwink | Deceive or trick. Staff were hoodwinked into thinking the cucumber was a sawn off shotgun. |
humbug | Deceptive or false talk or behaviour. You see what a humbug I am. |
inducement | A bribe. Companies were prepared to build only in return for massive inducements. |
lure | Something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed. The lure of the exotic East. |
scam | Swindle. A guy that scams old pensioners out of their savings. |
skulduggery | Underhand, unscrupulous, or dishonest behaviour or activities. A firm that investigates commercial skulduggery. |
sly | Having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature. A sly sip of water. |
subterfuge | Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity. He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions. |
trickery | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. The dealer resorted to trickery. |
wile | The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them. The devious wiles of the politicians. |
wily | Marked by skill in deception. A wily old attorney. |
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