bluff | Definition of bluff

bluff

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of bluff

1 to cause to believe what is untrue

I bluffed the interviewer into believing that I could really speak French and thus would be the perfect person to serve in the newspaper's Paris bureau

Synonyms of bluff

bamboozle, beguile, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick

Words Related to bluff

kid, put on, tease

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle

Phrases Synonymous with bluff

do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of bluff

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion

Antonyms of bluff

2 to present a false appearance of

the basketball player bluffed a shot, then passed instead

Synonyms of bluff

act, affect, assume, counterfeit, dissemble, fake, feign, pass (for), pretend, profess, put on, sham, simulate

Words Related to bluff

dissimulate, impersonate, let on, masquerade, play, playact, pose

camouflage, conceal, disguise, mask

Phrases Synonymous with bluff