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Adjective cheating has 2 senses
- adulterous, cheating, two-timing - not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend"
Antonym: faithful (indirect, via unfaithful)
- cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike - violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
Antonyms: fair, just (indirect, via unfair)
Noun cheating has 1 sense
- cheat, cheating - a deception for profit to yourself
--1 is a kind of deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
--1 has particulars: gerrymander
Verb cheat has 4 senses
- cheat, rip off, chisel - deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"
--1 is one way to victimize, victimise
Sample sentences:
They cheat him of all his money
Sam cannot cheat Sue
- cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey - defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
--2 is one way to beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- cheat, chisel - engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"
--3 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue cheat
- cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander - be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?"
--4 is one way to deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot cheat Sue
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