Word.ws English Dictionary

cardsharper

cardsharper noun: synonym of cardsharp.

Noun

cardsharper (plural cardsharpers)

  1. (rare) Synonym of cardsharp.
    • I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    cardsharp

Synonyms of cardsharper

Forms of cardsharper

pluralcardsharpers

Origin of cardsharper

From card + sharper.

Questions about cardsharper

What does cardsharper mean?
Cardsharper means synonym of cardsharp.
What part of speech is cardsharper?
Cardsharper is a noun.
What is the plural of cardsharper?
The plural of cardsharper is cardsharpers.

Words near cardsharper in the dictionary

  1. cards
  2. cards of ten
  3. cardshark
  4. cardsharks
  5. cardsharp
  6. cardsharper
  7. cardsharpers
  8. cardsharping
  9. cardsharps
  10. cardstock
  11. cardstocks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cardsharper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cardsharper.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cardsharper. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.