What is another word for treacherous?
Synonyms for treacherous
ˈtrɛtʃ ər əstreach·er·ous
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word treacherous.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
treacherous
Synonyms:
deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, faithless, false, fraudulent, hypocritical, lying, mendacious, perfidious, traitorous, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrueAntonyms:
candid, equitable, fair, faithful, frank, genuine, good, honest, honorable, ingenuous, just, sincere, straightforward, true, trustworthy, trusty, upright
Princeton's WordNet
treacherous, unreliableadjective
dangerously unstable and unpredictable
"treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"
Synonyms:
perfidious, punic, undependable, unreliablepunic, perfidious, treacherousadjective
tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
"Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
Synonyms:
perfidious, unreliable, punic
Dictionary of English Synonymes
treacherousadjective
Synonyms:
traitorous, perfidious, faithless, unfaithful, false, deceitful, insidious, disloyal, recreant, treasonable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
treacherousadjective
Synonyms:
traitorous, perfidious, faithless
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#2392 | false | |
#4178 | dangerous | |
#7137 | lying | |
#15352 | fraudulent | |
#21863 | unreliable | |
#27285 | dishonest | |
#30218 | untrue | |
#32281 | faithless | |
#32443 | traitor | |
#37389 | treacherous | |
#38412 | hypocritical | |
#38566 | perilous | |
#39559 | insidious | |
#40826 | unscrupulous | |
#50824 | unfaithful | |
#55524 | deceitful | |
#60164 | disingenuous | |
#60576 | deadbeat | |
#106765 | punic | |
#118674 | traitorous | |
#128190 | perfidious | |
#174612 | mendacious | |
#252790 | undependable |
How to use treacherous in a sentence?
Many of these families from Venezuela have traveled months on their feet and across the Rio Grande to get here. That is a treacherous trip. And imagine doing that with a three-year-old, i have a two-year-old and a five-year-old at home and the first family I met had a three-year-old girl who just looked around and had no understanding of what was happening. I needed to step away from the table for a minute. Her family was asking for resources. I asked the little girl what she had picked up from the tables. She said,' I just have Mami and Papi.'.
A white wolf is like a black wolf, each is a treacherous hunter.
This area of flat plains plus the canyon area makes it treacherous for firefighters.
The seas of Antarctica are treacherous and unforgiving, this incident is a sobering reminder of the importance of the U.S. icebreaker fleet as we see increased human activity in the polar regions.
Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry:
I ’d always imagined the tunnel as some treacherous passageway, inherently dangerous, but it was just a short, simple, no-frills tunnel.
Translations for treacherous
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- غادرArabic
- zrádnýCzech
- verräterisch, tückischGerman
- δόλιος, ύπουλος, επίβουλος, προδοτικόςGreek
- traicioneroSpanish
- خیانت امیزPersian
- petollinenFinnish
- traîtreFrench
- fabhtachIrish
- בּוֹגדָנִיHebrew
- მოღალატურიGeorgian
- verraderlijkDutch
- zdradzieckiPolish
- ненадёжный, непро́чный, преда́тельский, кова́рный, вероло́мныйRussian
- ทรยศThai
- зрадницькийUkrainian
- 奸诈Chinese
Get even more translations for treacherous »
Translation
Find a translation for the treacherous synonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"treacherous." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/treacherous>.
Discuss these treacherous synonyms with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In