Synonyms of beguiled

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adjective

as in duped

Related Words

• duped
• credulous
• tricked
• gullible
• gulled
• believing
• susceptible
• thoughtless
• careless
• trusting
• trustful
• unguarded
• heedless
• childlike
• idealistic
• impractical
• inexperienced
• unrealistic
• childish
• callow
• unsophisticated
• naive
• unsuspecting
• ingenuous
• simpleminded
• uncritical
• immature
• unsuspicious
• unwary
• unworldly
• dewy
• primitive
• unknowing
• wide-eyed
• green
• naïf
• innocent
• simple
• dewy-eyed
• raw
• aw-shucks

Dissimilar Words

• experienced
• sophisticated
• worldly
• knowing
• skeptical
• cosmopolitan
• unconvinced
• cynical
• incredulous
• careful
• suspicious
• wary
• cautious
• critical
• watchful
• worldly-wise
• leery
• guarded
• doubting
• pragmatic
• realistic
• sober
• suspecting
• hardheaded
• down-to-earth
• streetwise
• street-smart

beguiled

2 of 2

verb

past tense of beguile

1

as in fascinated

to attract or delight as if by magic

the magician effortlessly beguiled and amazed the children

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fascinated
• enticed
• enchanted
• charmed
• seduced
• delighted
• captivated
• bewitched
• interested
• intrigued
• pleased
• lured
• tempted
• killed
• allured
• magnetized
• wiled
• witched
• drew
• wooed
• entranced
• pulled
• disarmed
• gratified
• enraptured
• enthralled
• invited
• beckoned
• arrested
• appealed (to)
• courted
• solicited

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disgusted
• offended
• revolted
• repelled
• annoyed
• tired
• bored
• wearied
• displeased
• irked

2

as in deceived

to cause to believe what is untrue

beguiled her into believing that yet another worthless item would enhance her life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceived
• tricked
• fooled
• misled
• duped
• kidded
• gulled
• bamboozled
• deluded
• suckered
• hoodwinked
• teased
• humbugged
• snookered
• conned
• misinformed
• hornswoggled
• cozened
• misguided
• cheated
• stung
• buffaloed
• bluffed
• juggled
• hoaxed
• sucked in
• strung along
• caught
• snowed
• gaffed
• spoofed
• burned
• took in
• had on
• gammoned
• had
• faked out
• did a number on
• swindled
• pulled the wool over one's eyes
• defrauded
• shortchanged
• pulled one's leg
• led one down the garden path
• fleeced
• stuck
• rooked
• flimflammed
• put on
• mulcted
• hustled
• diddled
• euchred
• bled
• skinned
• chiseled
• squeezed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• undeceived
• revealed
• exposed
• uncovered
• unmasked
• told
• debunked
• disclosed
• showed up
• divulged
• unveiled
• disillusioned
• disenchanted
• disabused
• uncloaked

3

as in tempted

to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage

was beguiled by the promise of easy money as a drug dealer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tempted
• seduced
• lured
• persuaded
• enticed
• betrayed
• allured
• baited
• fascinated
• decoyed
• enchanted
• solicited
• led on
• inveigled
• trapped
• ensnared
• captivated
• charmed
• bewitched
• entrapped
• enmeshed
• snowed
• drew in
• snared
• tangled
• caught
• meshed
• roped (in)
• magnetized
• wiled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• warned
• cautioned
• alerted
• forewarned
• drove (away or off)
• repulsed
• turned away
• warded (off)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beguiled

Adjective

There’s no better time to stress-test the thesis that Americans were irreversibly beguiled by the World Cup than this weekend, when a new Premier League season gets underway and soccer converts can reunite with their summer heroes. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Critics accused Son of being too beguiled by charismatic founders rather than critically parsing financials. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026

Today, the urgent challenge before the royal family and many other institutions protected by mystique is whether the often degenerate select few in charge can still persuade the mass of people to remain beguiled and accept authority. — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

Now based in New York City, his first Texas solo museum show, staged at The Contemporary, revealed not only magnificently smooth objects seemingly beguiled from wood, with enough thorny surfaces to remind the viewer of the complicated life of the immigrant today. — Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026

Even the uninitiated will be beguiled, though, by the director’s meditative style, his skillful portrait of industrial upheaval and decay, and the sense of wistfulness driving Tao’s lovely performance. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025

Monroe has to slowly tilt from being beguiled and intrigued by Stevens to totally terrified by him, and her ability to pull it off while explosions and gun battles are going on around her sells the film’s tonal shifts perfectly. — Matthew Jackson, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025

Blessed with a certain photogenic look that’s beguiled moviegoing audiences since the 1930s and cursed with having the conversation start and stop there, Sweeney has become one of the few sure bets for stardom among the current A-listers-under-30 set, as well as a brand unto herself. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025

Verb

Once again, the nation’s defenses were down, beguiled by a presumption of invulnerability. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2026

The victory snapped a streak that had beguiled the second-year franchise even in the midst of an unprecedented level of success for an expansion team in the WNBA. — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026

Taxpayers’ expense for these machines could run into many millions, yet more counties are beguiled by the technology. — Phyllis Tashlik, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026

Renee Nicole Good was a pawn of leftist politicians and activists who beguiled her into believing that ICE officers are the bad guys and that there is virtue in attacking them, breaking the law and resisting arrest. — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2026

OpenAI took a step on one of these items Tuesday, announcing a model that predicts whether a user is a minor based on their behavior and usage patterns — a challenge that has beguiled the tech industry for decades. — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 21 Jan. 2026

In the five years just before war set in, these were among the dwellings that had beguiled Heinz Gaube (1940–2022), a German academic at the Oriental Seminar of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. — JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025

Actor Andre Amarotico’s delivery is that of a Narcissus beguiled by his own reflection. — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2025