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English
Etymology
From Old French trecheros, tricheros (“deceitful”), equivalent to treacher + -ous. See treacher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃəɹəs/, /ˈtɹɛt͡ʃɹəs/
Adjective
treacherous (comparative more treacherous, superlative most treacherous)
- Exhibiting treachery.
1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass:I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]
- Deceitful; inclined to betray.
- Unreliable; dangerous.
a treacherous mountain trail
2002, Charles Morris, The San Francisco Calamity:[…] they stood in the region of perpetual snow, amidst the glittering, treacherous glaciers and crevasses, with vast slippery-pathed precipices yawning round.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “exhibiting treachery”): loyal
Collocations
Collocations
- treacherous waters
- treacherous terrain
- treacherous journey
- treacherous path
- treacherous ground
- treacherous road
- treacherous place
- treacherous part
- treacherous sister
- treacherous people
- treacherous friend
- treacherous man
- treacherous body
- treacherous heart
- treacherous mountain
- treacherous rocks
- treacherous act
- treacherous conditions
- treacherous currents
- treacherous sea
- treacherous attack
- treacherous murder
- treacherous nature
- treacherous enemy
- treacherous ice
- treacherous conduct
Translations
exhibiting treachery
- Bulgarian: коварен (bg) (kovaren), вероломен (bg) (verolomen)
- Czech: zrádný m
- Danish: forræderisk
- Dutch: verraderlijk (nl)
- Finnish: petollinen (fi)
- French: traître (fr)
- Georgian: მოღალატური (moɣalaṭuri), გამცემლური (gamcemluri)
- German: verräterisch
- Greek: προδοτικός (el) m (prodotikós), δόλιος (el) m (dólios)
- Ancient: δολερός (dolerós), προδοτικός (prodotikós)
- Hungarian: áruló (hu)
- Irish: fealltach, cealgach
- Old Irish: braittech
- Italian: traditore (it) m, sleale (it) m, infido (it) m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: forrædersk
- Polish: zdradziecki (pl)
- Portuguese: fementido (pt), traiçoeiro (pt) m
- Russian: вероло́мный (ru) (verolómnyj), преда́тельский (ru) (predátelʹskij)
- Spanish: traicionero (es)
- Swedish: förrädisk (sv), trolös (sv)
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deceitful; inclined to betray
Further reading
- “treacherous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “treacherous”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “treacherous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.