HOAX meaning: Deceptive act intended to mislead

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Hoax:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

hoax: Merriam-Webster
hoax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hoax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hoax: Collins English Dictionary
hoax: Vocabulary.com
Hoax, hoax: Wordnik
hoax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hoax: Wiktionary
hoax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hoax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hoax: Infoplease Dictionary
Hoax, hoax: Dictionary.com
hoax: Online Etymology Dictionary
hoax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hoax (band), Hoax, The Hoax (band), The Hoax (film), The Hoax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hoax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hoax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hoax: Rhymezone
hoax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hoax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Hoax: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
hoax: FreeDictionary.org
hoax: Mnemonic Dictionary
hoax: TheFreeDictionary.com
hoax: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

hoax: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
Webopedia (No longer online)
Hoax: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

hoax: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hoax)

▸ verb: (transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
▸ noun: Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

Similar:

dupery, fraud, fraudulence, put-on, fake out, trick, spoof, deceive, mislead, misinform, more...

Opposite:

truth, fact, reality

Types:

crop circle, moon landing, Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, alien abduction, psychic powers, flat earth, QAnon, more...

Phrases:

piltdown hoax, Virus hoax, bomb hoax, internet hoax, Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax, more...

Adjectives:

cruel, elaborate, great, gigantic, literary, big, famous, clever, deliberate, mere, complete

Colors:

gray, black, white, red, yellow, more...