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Synonyms for Tricky
ˈtrɪk itrick·y
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
tricky
Synonyms:
adroit, artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, insincere, intriguing, knowing, maneuvering, sharp, shrewd, sly, subtle, wilyAntonyms:
aboveboard, artless, candid, fair, frank, guileless, honest, impartial, ingenuous, innocent, naive, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, transparent, truthful, unbiased, unprejudiced, unreserved, unsophisticated
Princeton's WordNet
slippery, trickyadjective
not to be trusted
"how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee
Synonyms:
dodgy, catchy, tricky, cunning, knavish, sly, guileful, wily, foxy, crafty, slippy, slick, tricksy, slipperyAntonyms:
trustworthy, trusty, easy, artlesscatchy, trickyadjective
having concealed difficulty
"a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow"
Synonyms:
dodgy, catchy, tricky, cunning, knavish, sly, attention-getting, guileful, wily, foxy, crafty, slick, tricksy, slipperyAntonyms:
easy, trustworthy, trusty, artlesscrafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wilyadjective
marked by skill in deception
"cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"
Synonyms:
tricksy, slippery, cunning, silky, clever, dicey, slick, sly, cute, satiny, chancy, sleek, catchy, ingenious, chanceful, pat, crafty, silklike, wily, guileful, knavish, dodgy, silken, glib, tricky, foxyAntonyms:
artless, trustworthy, trusty, easy
Editors Contribution
sneaky
to do something different than said
you will take a cookie when no one is looking
Submitted by GallowayKitten on May 2, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
trickyadjective
Synonyms:
TRICKISH
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
trickyadjective
Synonyms:
trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Tricky":
Adrian Thaws, Starving Souls, Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, Tricky Kid
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1758 | complex | |
#1928 | difficult | |
#3091 | sharp | |
#3826 | sensitive | |
#3996 | cute | |
#4535 | pat | |
#4704 | knowing | |
#6425 | designing | |
#7037 | complicated | |
#9840 | subtle | |
#10247 | clever | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#12178 | diplomatic | |
#14579 | sleek | |
#15835 | slick | |
#15928 | tricky | |
#16174 | intriguing | |
#17452 | awkward | |
#18828 | slippery | |
#18996 | silky | |
#23246 | sly | |
#24397 | catchy | |
#25806 | crafty | |
#26623 | cunning | |
#27214 | glib | |
#27566 | foxy | |
#28297 | ingenious | |
#35834 | artful | |
#36528 | dodgy | |
#42741 | maneuvering | |
#44318 | shrewd | |
#47302 | silken | |
#48777 | wily | |
#48883 | thorny | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#70664 | adroit | |
#75645 | dicey | |
#76482 | insincere | |
#107171 | slippy | |
#108569 | satiny | |
#157118 | chancy |
How to use Tricky in a sentence?
Following the breakdown of its M&A prospects, the organic route to 'safety' for Oi looks increasingly tricky and the prospect of debt restructuring more likely.
It’s going to be a little bit more tricky for some applicants.
I had to kind of step back, i was in Orlando and took some time and really wanted to heal fully, because an ab is a tricky spot. I had some good preparation on the clay there and when I came here I was really excited.
Expectation's a tricky thing. It's clearly the next step for me to win over here, but winning's not easy and I've just got to keep plodding away.
Short of getting a test, I would say it's really tricky to distinguish right now, we need to just treat cold-ish symptoms in pretty much the same bucket.
Translations for Tricky
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- صعبArabic
- knifflig, heikel, gerissen, schwierigGerman
- δυσνόητος, περίπλοκος, μπερδεμένοςGreek
- dificultoso, dificultosa, difícilSpanish
- petlik, täbar, keeruline, kavalEstonian
- tukala, hankala, ovela, juonikasFinnish
- épineux, retors, malin, rusée, complexe, délicat, compliqué, ruséFrench
- նենգոտArmenian
- difficile, pericoloso, insidioso, ingannevoleItalian
- 狡猾Japanese
- 교활한Korean
- ancipiti captioni isseLatin
- netelige, listige, listig, neteligDutch
- complicada, complicadoPortuguese
- щекотливый, каверзный, оборотистый, ловкий, пронырливыйRussian
- listig, lurig, knepig, meckigSwedish
- güç, aldatıcı, kurnaz, zorTurkish
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