Word.ws English Dictionary

wileful

wileful adjective: artful, wily, deceitful.

Adjective

wileful (comparative more wileful, superlative most wileful)

  1. artful, wily, deceitful.

Forms of wileful

comparativemore wileful
superlativemost wileful

Origin of wileful

From wile + -ful.

Questions about wileful

What does wileful mean?
Wileful means artful, wily, deceitful.
What part of speech is wileful?
Wileful is an adjective.

Words near wileful in the dictionary

  1. Wile E. Coyote-ing
  2. Wile E. Coyotes
  3. wile out
  4. wiled
  5. wiled out
  6. wileful
  7. wileless
  8. wilely
  9. Wileman
  10. Wilemans
  11. Wilemon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wileful (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: “wileful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wileful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.