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guileful

guileful adjective: full of guile; treacherously deceptive.

Adjective

guileful (comparative more guileful, superlative most guileful)

  1. Full of guile; treacherously deceptive.

guileful meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

guileful in Tamil

சுழி

guileful in Urdu

فریبی, عیار, کائیاں, مکار

guileful in Bengali

ছলনাপূর্ণ, বিশ্বাসঘাতকতার সাথে প্রতারণামূলক

Synonyms of guileful

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Forms of guileful

comparativemore guileful
superlativemost guileful
alternative formguilefull

Origin of guileful

From Middle English gileful, gilful, equivalent to guile + -ful.

Words formed from guileful

Questions about guileful

What does guileful mean?
Guileful means full of guile; treacherously deceptive.
What is guileful in Tamil?
Guileful in Tamil is சுழி. See Guileful meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is guileful?
Guileful is an adjective.

Words near guileful in the dictionary

  1. guildswoman
  2. guildswomen
  3. guildwide
  4. guile
  5. guiled
  6. guileful
  7. guilefull
  8. guilefully
  9. guilefulness
  10. guilele
  11. guileles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guileful (page history and authors); guileful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guileful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guileful (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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