What is another word for betrayal?
1198 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ bɪtɹˈe͡ɪə͡l], [ bɪtɹˈeɪəl], [ b_ɪ_t_ɹ_ˈeɪ_əl]
Betrayal is a strong emotional feeling of disloyalty and deceit. Synonyms for betrayal include treachery, betrayal of trust, infidelity, disloyalty, perfidy, dishonesty, falsehood, treason, duplicity, double-crossing, backstabbing and unfaithfulness. The word betrayal is often used to describe a situation in which someone trusts another person and is then let down by them. This can be a devastating experience, leaving individuals feeling hurt, angry, and betrayed. It is important to be aware of the different ways in which people can betray us, and to understand that betrayal can occur in both personal and professional relationships. Knowing the synonyms for betrayal can help people to identify and articulate their feelings and seek the necessary support to overcome them.
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Similar words for betrayal:
- abandonment (noun)
- act (noun)
- dead giveaway (noun)
- deception (noun)
- defection (noun)
- desertion (noun)
- disappointments (noun)
- disclosure (noun)
- divulgence of information (noun)
- exhibition of disloyalty (noun)
- expose (noun)
- exposure (noun)
- faithlessness (noun)
- falseness (noun)
- infidelity (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- renunciation (noun)
- revelation (noun)
- treachery (noun)
- other synonyms
- fault
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Betrayal:
n.
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- trust.
- exposure secret,
- unwitting disclosures,
- unintentional disclosures,
- dead-giveaway,
- communication leaks.
- fraudulence,
- dissimulation,
- hokum,
- boondoggles,
- boondoggle,
- fast one,
- Double dealing,
- deceptiveness,
- cozenage,
- hypocrisy,
- beguilements,
- cunnings,
- beguilement,
- disinformation,
- dupery,
- double-dealing,
- Defraudation.
- de-relicts,
- de-parting,
- de-partings,
- disavowings,
- de-relict,
- dis-avowing,
- dis-affections,
- dis-affection,
- de partings,
- maroonings,
- running out ons,
- falling aways,
- departings,
- dis-avowals,
- re treats,
- dis avowal,
- dis avowals,
- de relicts,
- going back ons,
- dis avowing,
- dis-avowal,
- forsakings,
- re-treats,
- defectings,
- de parting,
- dis affections,
- de relict,
- dis affection,
- re-treat.
- anticlimax,
- blind alley,
- downer,
- fool's gold,
- shame,
- dud,
- brave new world,
- false dawn,
- might-have-been,
- bummer,
- disappointment,
- letdown,
- nonevent.
- Exposal,
- divulgence,
- unveilment,
- uncovering,
- revealings,
- impartation,
- Divulgation,
- Revealment,
- Impartance,
- snitch,
- tipoff,
- tip off.
- ex planation,
- ex pose,
- ex-plication,
- ex planations,
- ex-plications,
- ex plications,
- ex-positions,
- ex-pose,
- ex-planations,
- ex-position,
- ex plication.
- susceptivenesses,
- un folding,
- un masking,
- un-masking,
- un veiling,
- divulgings,
- defenselessnesses,
- denudations,
- un veilings,
- un-veilings,
- dis-plays,
- dis-play,
- laying opens,
- dis plays,
- un-veiling,
- unmaskings,
- un maskings,
- dis play,
- un-maskings,
- un-folding.
- dis-honesty,
- dis-belief,
- ficklenesses,
- un faithfulnesses,
- dis beliefs,
- dis-honesties,
- in-constancies,
- dis honesty,
- dis honesties,
- in constancies,
- un-faithfulness,
- un faithfulness,
- dis belief,
- in-constancy,
- dis-beliefs,
- un-faithfulnesses,
- in constancy.
- falsification,
- inconstancy,
- falseheartedness,
- defenselessness,
- elusion,
- exposure,
- castoff,
- telltale sign,
- dirty dealing,
- eye-openers,
- divulgement,
- airings,
- elusions,
- fickleness,
- evasion,
- doublecross,
- double cross,
- blow by blow,
- giveaway,
- exposure of secret,
- dead giveaway,
- epiphanies,
- Unearthing,
- unveilings,
- barings,
- castoffs,
- faithlessness,
- fast shuffle,
- disclosure,
- earful,
- perfidiousness,
- Susceptivity,
- revelation,
- denudation,
- treachery,
- susceptiveness,
- lightning bolt,
- telltales,
- traitorousness,
- jeopardy,
- falseness,
- adumbration,
- falling away,
- telltale signs,
- skin game,
- treacherousness,
- susceptivities,
- bunco,
- unintentional disclosure,
- foreshadowings,
- deception,
- disavowal,
- falsifications,
- inconstancies,
- stab in back,
- unwitting disclosure,
- foreshadowing,
- dirty trick,
- laying open,
- communication leak,
- running out on,
- the latest,
- disavowals,
- giveaways,
- eye-opener.
- backsliding,
- abandonment,
- Retractation,
- about-face,
- renouncement,
- abdication,
- apostasy,
- denial,
- crossing,
- abnegation,
- turnabout,
- dereliction.
Other synonyms:
• fault • Other relevant words:- flimflam,
- ill-treat,
- faith,
- become flat,
- self-denial,
- thunderbolt,
- rapine,
- insult,
- drive home,
- break up,
- conquest,
- colza,
- muff,
- workshop,
- find,
- slyness,
- browse,
- hybridization,
- desire,
- enamour,
- volte-face,
- dish,
- begrime,
- outrage,
- notification,
- reliance,
- legerdemain,
- fluff,
- sedative,
- off-key,
- surrender,
- lay off,
- dodging,
- dashing hopes,
- believe,
- pervert,
- float,
- demonstration,
- throw in,
- dispense with,
- mistreat,
- punic,
- forsaking,
- looker,
- knock off,
- defector,
- shucks,
- blast,
- crossover,
- intermit,
- muddy,
- magic,
- sneak,
- assumed,
- evaporate,
- meaninglessness,
- shaft,
- lulu,
- infract,
- bring down,
- part,
- eatage,
- fake,
- gulf,
- becharm,
- mother fucker,
- gap,
- go against,
- dingy,
- gasconade,
- burst,
- fork over,
- allow,
- cave in,
- brand,
- reversal,
- double-faced,
- squat,
- analyze,
- delinquency,
- muck up,
- divagate,
- reverse,
- cede,
- changefulness,
- double-crosser,
- blab,
- mark,
- disconnection,
- untrue,
- scupper,
- shove off,
- corporate trust,
- pic,
- imposter,
- capture,
- ca-ca,
- show,
- join forces,
- break-dance,
- gas,
- scab,
- pardner,
- conveyance,
- weed,
- photograph,
- partner in crime,
- relegate,
- confide,
- babble,
- stinkpot,
- dirt,
- head game,
- stray,
- get together,
- discredit,
- green goddess,
- break out,
- go off,
- pity,
- hustle,
- skunk,
- deadbolt,
- pretender,
- reversion,
- pitch,
- geological fault,
- get down,
- get out,
- rove,
- con,
- defect,
- blow out,
- discontinue,
- ease up,
- happy chance,
- empty,
- injudiciousness,
- escape,
- fault,
- interrupt,
- desolate,
- picture,
- failing,
- chess,
- locoweed,
- recrudesce,
- deport,
- give,
- misdemeanor,
- fall in,
- conjuration,
- shop class,
- confidence game,
- rig,
- filthy,
- glom,
- shoot a line,
- roam,
- janus-faced,
- bullshit,
- divine revelation,
- peccadillo,
- gaolbreak,
- breaking away,
- sham,
- charge,
- check,
- birth,
- bewitch,
- dead-end street,
- treasonous,
- let the cat out of the bag,
- ignominy,
- forage,
- ruin,
- decompose,
- making water,
- defencelessness,
- ill-usage,
- recess,
- burn out,
- go down on,
- unconstraint,
- bunko game,
- snuff it,
- jab,
- puke,
- ramble,
- rook,
- fictive,
- make off,
- renounce,
- talebearing,
- lose it,
- take a shit,
- prisonbreak,
- bawling out,
- bollocks up,
- tip,
- baring,
- showing,
- darnel,
- diddlyshit,
- bollix,
- take apart,
- alienation,
- skulduggery,
- pot,
- shock,
- shot,
- fuck up,
- defense,
- put down,
- collaborationism,
- dampen,
- stiffly,
- trick,
- gage,
- digress,
- commit,
- betrayer,
- babble out,
- uncover,
- craftiness,
- damn,
- husking,
- meander,
- range,
- boast,
- spy,
- dope,
- wear,
- unmasking,
- knife thrust,
- nobble,
- eluding,
- ill-use,
- animal magnetism,
- fictitious,
- bomb,
- sex crime,
- flop,
- louse up,
- gust,
- misuse,
- bear,
- die out,
- bunko,
- salmon pink,
- absquatulate,
- peril,
- mulct,
- exit,
- falsifying,
- bastard,
- flub,
- intrusion,
- turd,
- squeaking,
- debunk,
- crumb,
- rift,
- chisel,
- video display,
- refutation,
- goldbrick,
- confidence trick,
- spoil,
- obliquity,
- criminal conversation,
- simulated,
- breach,
- double-tongued,
- peter out,
- entrancement,
- forfeit,
- maltreatment,
- go bad,
- enchant,
- sleuth,
- mistaken,
- renunciation,
- distraction,
- redeem,
- cogent,
- darn,
- leakage,
- estrangement,
- buy the farm,
- deal,
- role player,
- faux,
- brag,
- hollowness,
- pause,
- patronize,
- trustingness,
- captivate,
- time out,
- semblance,
- unprotectedness,
- unclean,
- assault,
- contumely,
- unplug,
- shoddy,
- con game,
- misguide,
- chouse,
- delusive,
- severance,
- tare,
- sponsor,
- lead off,
- relinquish,
- misdemeanour,
- queer,
- run down,
- fascinate,
- cast,
- impostor,
- shift,
- skullduggery,
- poop,
- marked-up,
- have,
- shenanigan,
- crush,
- mishandle,
- roll,
- double-dealer,
- diddle,
- sezession,
- traitorously,
- get around,
- prevarication,
- despoil,
- transgress,
- tumble,
- bobble,
- adumbrative,
- spare,
- smasher,
- bankrupt,
- disclaimer,
- run off,
- snoop,
- waste,
- singing,
- change of mind,
- talk,
- cross,
- melt,
- develop,
- breakout,
- dissect,
- waive,
- black eye,
- squander,
- breakage,
- disproof,
- beetle off,
- save,
- scourge,
- stunner,
- lead on,
- phantasy,
- knockout,
- fissiparous,
- beguiler,
- rotter,
- intro,
- unsporting,
- dogshit,
- wind,
- exhibit,
- dressing down,
- screw,
- henchman,
- smoke,
- let out,
- suck,
- sess,
- snow,
- scum bag,
- prefigurative,
- take down,
- smash,
- juggle,
- revilement,
- dissembling,
- extradite,
- stool,
- kick,
- ill-treatment,
- game show,
- dump,
- bang,
- part with,
- run out,
- ratter,
- lower,
- mantrap,
- throw overboard,
- damp,
- thrust,
- news leak,
- swan,
- impasse,
- diddly,
- drop out,
- shammer,
- intrust,
- spoilation,
- cocksucker,
- crossway,
- red cent,
- outflow,
- bull,
- let on,
- stoolpigeon,
- squealer,
- cooperate,
- go wrong,
- botch,
- render,
- lapsing,
- split,
- sex offense,
- combine,
- nonsensicality,
- tout,
- discovery,
- hybridisation,
- bollocks,
- flip-flop,
- trance,
- ford,
- thieve,
- presentment,
- despoilation,
- strikebreaker,
- screaky,
- attaint,
- resign,
- break dance,
- cuckold,
- chicane,
- break off,
- fall apart,
- policy change,
- impressive,
- passing water,
- sexual abuse,
- self-renunciation,
- whoreson,
- washout,
- pretended,
- stool pigeon,
- liquidize,
- snap,
- slapdash,
- tattle,
- contaminating,
- leaky,
- bunk,
- sordid,
- coke,
- ball up,
- photo,
- prison-breaking,
- respite,
- disclose,
- hope,
- quit,
- stripping,
- tinker's dam,
- spoliation,
- bungle,
- upbraiding,
- dickhead,
- going-over,
- shite,
- jailbreak,
- fracture,
- confidence,
- wetting,
- hocus-pocus,
- nonpayment,
- bring out,
- pyrite,
- mislead,
- cozen,
- setback,
- scam,
- relapse,
- craft,
- kick downstairs,
- diddley,
- twinge,
- bemire,
- step,
- decamp,
- treacherously,
- slickness,
- apricot,
- bewitchery,
- falling out,
- put on,
- misfire,
- fall by the wayside,
- go away,
- taleteller,
- two-faced,
- suspension,
- trustfulness,
- faker,
- snap off,
- return,
- usurpation,
- withdrawal,
- kick the bucket,
- stigmatize,
- hornswoggle,
- gobble,
- break away,
- depredation,
- give out,
- fink,
- rip off,
- dirty dog,
- enamor,
- wildness,
- deceitfulness,
- drop dead,
- treasonably,
- good luck,
- pseud,
- croak,
- turkey,
- blabbermouthed,
- trade,
- prefiguration,
- weaken,
- coaction,
- divulge,
- wantonness,
- duplicitous,
- deceitful,
- bumble,
- unreliable,
- dash,
- screw up,
- confederate,
- weave,
- crap,
- bluster,
- hybridizing,
- unpatriotic,
- free,
- store,
- foul up,
- fantasy,
- irreverence,
- devastate,
- pasturage,
- crumble,
- poke,
- blab out,
- yield,
- hoax,
- nose candy,
- stinker,
- maltreat,
- victimize,
- plunder,
- patronise,
- slip,
- imparting,
- traitorous,
- sens,
- stoolie,
- peach tree,
- violate,
- lousy,
- introduction,
- give-up the ghost,
- demurrer,
- fabrication,
- puff,
- throw in the towel,
- equivocation,
- jockey,
- about turn,
- fornication,
- wear out,
- grime,
- thaddaeus,
- pop off,
- choke,
- founder,
- prick,
- motherfucker,
- entrust,
- foul,
- blabber,
- breaking,
- apprisal,
- befoulment,
- muddied,
- lip service,
- soften,
- vilification,
- abscond,
- bust,
- tramp,
- delusion,
- drift,
- jude,
- bearded darnel,
- insincerity,
- make,
- sob,
- knife,
- cheating,
- horseshit,
- stigmatise,
- ravish,
- depressant,
- yellowish pink,
- demean,
- apostate,
- chicanery,
- castigation,
- cul de sac,
- leak out,
- tinker's damn,
- ambidextrous,
- weighty,
- relapsing,
- clapperclaw,
- hook,
- unsportsmanlike,
- collapse,
- lapse,
- crossbreeding,
- intermission,
- diddly-shit,
- entrance,
- canary,
- chewing out,
- stop,
- self-abnegation,
- diddly-squat,
- asshole,
- informing,
- go,
- swindle,
- rigidly,
- interruption,
- falsehood,
- lallation,
- vanish,
- carrefour,
- dishonour,
- tattletale,
- encroachment,
- cop,
- misdirect,
- present,
- deceiver,
- fellate,
- endanger,
- defence,
- crosswalk,
- short-change,
- cheater,
- slap,
- move over,
- crossroad,
- diddlysquat,
- snitcher,
- intersection,
- thread,
- beauty,
- sell up,
- shout,
- interbreeding,
- poop out,
- dig,
- tergiversation,
- doodly-squat,
- soiled,
- fancy,
- turn in,
- partner,
- frequent,
- separate,
- supergrass,
- blackguard,
- screechy,
- jiggery-pokery,
- vaunt,
- ill-gotten,
- recreant,
- wiliness,
- pall,
- bathos,
- charm,
- defecate,
- lay waste to,
- despoliation,
- squeaky,
- sweetheart,
- unwrap,
- separatist,
- blabbermouth,
- untruth,
- quislingism,
- conk,
- son of a bitch,
- spill the beans,
- sour,
- sedative drug,
- wile,
- foxiness,
- vacate,
- disruption,
- rupture,
- hart,
- jack,
- cash in one's chips,
- fork up,
- cooperator,
- reveal,
- crumple,
- hazard,
- fork out,
- iron pyrite,
- grass over,
- sneaker,
- pestiferous,
- harry,
- put-on,
- colly,
- break in,
- conjuring trick,
- bump,
- dice,
- renegade,
- lowlife,
- mess up,
- cartel,
- bolt out,
- cease,
- better,
- release,
- talebearer,
- magic trick,
- reverting,
- forgo,
- hoot,
- fumble,
- break of serve,
- hand over,
- forego,
- willful neglect,
- apocalypse,
- neglect,
- shop at,
- smack,
- faithlessly,
- relation,
- chuck up the sponge,
- bum,
- be adrift,
- buy at,
- botch up,
- erupt,
- offend,
- soil,
- expire,
- trespass,
- informer,
- misrepresentation,
- pass,
- give birth,
- pass away,
- vagabond,
- shove along,
- analyse,
- slicker,
- nonsense,
- bolt of lightning,
- swash,
- degrade,
- risk,
- humbug,
- cunning,
- trickster,
- decease,
- demote,
- split up,
- prod,
- bollix up,
- turnaround,
- hoodwink,
- vulnerability,
- rescue,
- pasture,
- ravisher,
- recounting,
- pollution,
- so-and-so,
- imitation,
- perish,
- revealing,
- infraction,
- crack,
- discover,
- blackleg,
- take a crap,
- drop by the wayside,
- catch,
- tattler,
- come apart,
- stepping down,
- sing,
- sting,
- pseudo,
- pang,
- treasonist,
- open frame,
- miscarry.
- grass,
- despoilment,
- ravishment,
- guile,
- defilement,
- blabbering,
- indiscretion,
- disrepute,
- beguile,
- Divulging,
- die,
- break down,
- judas kiss,
- disappear,
- peach,
- deceive,
- rat,
- defraud,
- display,
- lese-majesty,
- cheat on,
- kiss of death,
- turning traitor,
- violation,
- Recidivation,
- high treason,
- get worse,
- presentation,
- adultery,
- deserter,
- abuse,
- give away,
- betrayals,
- insidiousness,
- rape,
- infringement,
- letting out,
- Blabbing,
- secret information,
- Evulgation,
- shop,
- sell out,
- sedition,
- tell on,
- forsake,
- stab,
- Recreancy,
- stag,
- dishonor,
- Debauchment,
- leak,
- seduction,
- subversiveness,
- wander,
- falsity,
- bolt,
- babbling,
- disappoint,
- flush it,
- delude,
- Improbity,
- breach of faith,
- telltale,
- conk out,
- disgrace,
- let down,
- give up,
- shit,
- inform on,
- ravage,
- sell,
- giving away,
- betraying,
- priapism,
- schism,
- Seducement,
- cheat,
- walkout,
- deliver,
- lead astray,
- act of disloyalty,
- deflowering,
- bewray,
- breakaway,
- flunk,
- recidivism,
- knavery,
- abandon,
- expose,
- give way,
- act the traitor,
- deceit,
- lying,
- illusion,
- secession,
- consign,
- denounce,
- betray,
- fraud,
- fail,
- criminal assault,
- defloration,
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How to use "Betrayal" in context?
Betrayal is an act of deliberately breaking a trust or confidence. It may refer to an act of disloyalty or treachery, especially to one's superior or friend. Betrayal may also refer to the act of disclosing a secret or the promise not to disclose a secret. In some cases, betrayal can be a result of emotional or mental manipulation.
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Equivalence
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Interjection
treason.
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Interjection
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
infidelity.
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Noun, singular or mass
deceit, deception, infidelity, traitor, sell-out.
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Proper noun, singular
Hyponym for Betrayal:
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act
knavery, dishonesty.
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attribute
traitorousness, treason, subversiveness.
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