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  • cunning

    ability, character trait

  • crafty

    sly, cunning

  • wily

    sly, cunning

  • sly

    cunning, ability

  • foxy

    ability, character trait

  • guileful

    ability, sly

  • artful

    sly, cunning

  • slippery

    character trait, cunning

  • slick

    deceptive

  • difficult

    characteristic, hard

  • shifty

    foxy, deceptive

  • subtle

    sly, crafty

  • touchy

    characteristic, difficult

  • dodgy

    artful, slippery

  • knotty

    complicated, intricate

  • delicate

    difficult, complicated

  • ticklish

    difficult, complicated

  • deceitful

    artful, crafty

  • intricate

    complicated, characteristic

  • complex

    characteristic, complicated

  • complicated

    characteristic, intricate

  • devious

    artful, crafty

  • dishonest

    cheating, deceptive

  • precarious

    difficult, extremely uncertain

  • shrewd

    property, clever

  • catchy

    deceptive

  • thorny

    difficult, hard

  • sticky

    easy

  • sensitive

    easy

  • treacherous

    artful, crafty

  • risky

    extremely uncertain

  • touch-and-go

    easy, extremely uncertain

  • cagey

    property, character trait

  • scheming

    ability, deceptive

  • clever

    shrewd, property

  • insidious

    artful, crafty

  • sharp

  • problematic

  • designing

  • canny

    shrewd, property

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1054 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ tɹˈɪki], [ tɹˈɪki], [ t_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_i]

Related words: difficult, challenge, puzzling, hard, difficult puzzle, difficult level, hard level

  • adj.

    all (adjective)

    • tricky.

    artful (adjective)

    • re-sourceful,
    • slick,
    • re sourceful.

    chancy (adjective)

    • Fluctuant,
    • iffy.

    complicated, difficult (adjective)

    • involved,
    • ticklish,
    • critical,
    • quirky,
    • perplexing,
    • risky,
    • complex,
    • precarious.

    cowardly (adjective)

    • yellow.

    crafty (adjective)

    • most streetwise,
    • street smart,
    • more streetwise.

    deceitful (adjective)

    • more astucious,
    • more deceiving,
    • most deceiving,
    • in direct,
    • hypo-critical,
    • under-handed,
    • in-direct,
    • most astucious,
    • most feline,
    • most impostrous,
    • under handed,
    • more rascal,
    • more feline,
    • more beguiling,
    • most beguiling,
    • more impostrous,
    • mendacious,
    • hypo critical,
    • most illusory,
    • most rascal.

    deceptive (adjective)

    • Imposturous,
    • seeming,
    • snide.

    delicate (adjective)

    • more hair trigger,
    • most hairtrigger,
    • hair trigger,
    • most hair trigger,
    • more hair-trigger,
    • most hair-trigger,
    • hair-trigger,
    • more hairtrigger.

    designing (adjective)

    • more conniving,
    • un-scrupulous,
    • de-signing,
    • most conspiring,
    • more conspiring,
    • un scrupulous,
    • de signing,
    • most conniving.

    devious (adjective)

    • in sincere,
    • in-sincere,
    • in-sincerer,
    • more obliquitous,
    • in sincerer,
    • in-sincerest,
    • most obliquitous,
    • in sincerest,
    • playing politics,
    • faking out,
    • shady,
    • insincere.

    difficult (adjective)

    • demanding,
    • tough,
    • strenuous,
    • harsh,
    • hard,
    • rugged,
    • wearying,
    • difficult,
    • uphill,
    • grinding,
    • fussy,
    • contrary,
    • formidable,
    • laborious,
    • onerous,
    • cantankerous,
    • severe,
    • oppressive,
    • cumbersome,
    • rough,
    • bothersome,
    • wearisome,
    • burdensome,
    • wearing,
    • adverse,
    • toilsome,
    • complicated,
    • finicky,
    • arduous.

    dishonest (adjective)

    • deceptive,
    • perfidious.

    disingenuous (adjective)

    • Uncandid,
    • unfrank.

    double-dealing (adjective)

    • double-dealing,
    • lefthanded,
    • left handed,
    • doubledealing.

    elusive (adjective)

    • in tangible,
    • more phantom,
    • un-specific,
    • un specific,
    • in-comprehensible,
    • in-tangible,
    • most unspecific,
    • in substantial,
    • difficult catch,
    • fugacious,
    • evanescent,
    • in comprehensible,
    • more unspecific,
    • most elusory,
    • in definable,
    • most phantom,
    • more stonewalling,
    • in-substantial,
    • in-definable,
    • more elusory,
    • most stonewalling.

    embarrassing (adjective)

    • dis-commodious,
    • up setting,
    • be wildering,
    • in convenient,
    • more mortifying,
    • in-opportune,
    • un-easier,
    • troubling,
    • more distracting,
    • most discommoding,
    • most bewildering,
    • most distracting,
    • in opportune,
    • more rattling,
    • most discommodious,
    • un-easy,
    • uneasy,
    • most rattling,
    • most compromising,
    • most troubling,
    • more discomfiting,
    • most exasperating,
    • un seemlier,
    • more discommodious,
    • un seemliest,
    • un-seemlier,
    • un-easiest,
    • more discommoding,
    • up-setting,
    • in-commodious,
    • more exasperating,
    • most discomfiting,
    • be-wildering,
    • un-comfortable,
    • more disconcerting,
    • un comfortable,
    • unpropitious,
    • un easier,
    • in-convenient,
    • un propitious,
    • dis commodious,
    • most disconcerting,
    • un easy,
    • dis-agreeable,
    • dis-concerting,
    • dis agreeable,
    • un-propitious,
    • un-seemly,
    • un seemly,
    • un-seemliest,
    • ex asperating,
    • most mortifying,
    • more troubling,
    • dis concerting,
    • more compromising,
    • un easiest,
    • more bewildering,
    • inconvenient,
    • ex-asperating,
    • in commodious.

    foxy (adjective)

    • more retiary,
    • most retiary.

    fraudulent (adjective)

    • dis-honorable,
    • dis honorable,
    • most bamboozling,
    • more bamboozling.

    furtive (adjective)

    • most slinking,
    • more conspiratorial,
    • more under-the-table,
    • most sub rosa,
    • subrosa,
    • most under the table,
    • dis-guised,
    • hush hush,
    • more sub rosa,
    • more sub-rosa,
    • dis guised,
    • most subrosa,
    • most conspiratorial,
    • more slinking,
    • most under-the-table,
    • under-cover,
    • hushhush,
    • more subrosa.

    intricate (adjective)

    • tangled,
    • most high tech,
    • more hightech,
    • most entangled,
    • more daedal,
    • most high-tech,
    • more high-tech,
    • most daedal,
    • most hightech,
    • can worms,
    • more entangled,
    • more high tech,
    • hightech.

    intuitive (adjective)

    • canny,
    • sophisticated,
    • instinctive,
    • clever,
    • far-sighted,
    • astute,
    • intuitive,
    • instinctual,
    • insightful.

    knotty (adjective)

    • mazier,
    • most gordian,
    • most ramified,
    • more gordian,
    • mystifying,
    • most nodulous,
    • more nodulous,
    • effortful,
    • Nodulous,
    • up hill,
    • more ramified,
    • most reticular,
    • reticular,
    • more reticular,
    • up-hill,
    • maziest.

    lying (adjective)

    • mis-stating,
    • fibbing,
    • mis stating,
    • most dissembling,
    • more equivocating,
    • more prevaricating,
    • more inventing,
    • more dissembling,
    • more fibbing,
    • in-venting,
    • more misstating,
    • mis-representing,
    • most falsifying,
    • most prevaricating,
    • more falsifying,
    • dis-simulating,
    • most fibbing,
    • most misstating,
    • most dissimulating,
    • in venting,
    • most equivocating,
    • mis representing,
    • most misrepresenting,
    • most inventing,
    • more misrepresenting,
    • more dissimulating,
    • dis simulating.

    lying under oath (adjective)

    • Perjurious.

    mischievous (adjective)

    • mis behaving,
    • most rascally,
    • mis-behaving,
    • more vexing,
    • mischievous,
    • more ill behaved,
    • more ill-behaved,
    • most ill-behaved,
    • more illbehaved,
    • more misbehaving,
    • more rascally,
    • holy terror,
    • most illbehaved,
    • most vexing,
    • teasing,
    • more dickens,
    • illbehaved,
    • most dickens,
    • impish,
    • ill behaved,
    • most misbehaving,
    • most ill behaved.

    misleading (adjective)

    • more casuistical,
    • most confounding,
    • more demagogic,
    • mis-leading,
    • mis leading,
    • most casuistical,
    • most sophistical,
    • more confounding,
    • more sophistical,
    • most demagogic,
    • in accurate.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • roguish,
    • streetwise,
    • crafty,
    • wily,
    • intricate,
    • chancy,
    • dishonest,
    • sneaky,
    • deep,
    • trying,
    • dicey,
    • rocky,
    • committing perjury,
    • delicate,
    • playing games,
    • on thin ice,
    • strategic,
    • unspecific,
    • sly,
    • thorny,
    • sophistical,
    • deceitful,
    • prevaricatory,
    • two-faced,
    • unprincipled,
    • brambly,
    • fraught with danger,
    • going for broke,
    • no good,
    • up on,
    • crazy like a fox,
    • under-the-table,
    • casuistical,
    • Discommodious,
    • designing,
    • untrusty,
    • hairtrigger,
    • high tech,
    • unassured,
    • unreliable,
    • scheming,
    • sub-rosa,
    • troublesome,
    • snake in grass,
    • shrewd,
    • prickly,
    • dodgy,
    • fair weather,
    • sneaking,
    • difficult to catch,
    • tight,
    • Infestive,
    • shifty,
    • on slippery ground,
    • on top of,
    • Daedal,
    • on the inside,
    • Trustless,
    • mazy,
    • untrustworthy,
    • cunning,
    • Elusory,
    • treacherous,
    • touchy,
    • faking one out,
    • problematic,
    • elusive,
    • conspiratorial,
    • Perturbable,
    • stressful,
    • fraudulent,
    • underhand,
    • tricker,
    • guileful,
    • prevaricative,
    • rascally,
    • Astucious,
    • bundle of nerves,
    • ill-behaved,
    • shark,
    • no bargain,
    • falsehearted,
    • not fixed,
    • playing with fire,
    • off deep end,
    • disingenuous,
    • briery,
    • unloyal,
    • dickens,
    • touch-and-go,
    • on the spot,
    • fair-weather,
    • vulpine,
    • sticky,
    • out on limb,
    • in the know,
    • not straightforward,
    • artful,
    • Double dealing,
    • high-tech,
    • wiggly,
    • devious,
    • not a prayer,
    • demagogic,
    • furtive,
    • Echinated,
    • crazy like fox,
    • slippery,
    • hanging by thread,
    • wide open,
    • pettish,
    • undependable,
    • tottering,
    • unstable,
    • Retiary,
    • obliquitous,
    • knotty,
    • Impostrous,
    • collusive,
    • misleading.

    perjurious (adjective)

    • Perjured,
    • Forsworn,
    • most forsworn,
    • more forsworn.

    prickly (adjective)

    • bramblier,
    • brieriest,
    • most echinated,
    • more echinated,
    • brierier,
    • brambliest.

    problematic (adjective)

    • up for grabs,
    • dubitable.

    risky (adjective)

    • in-secure,
    • not prayer,
    • un safer,
    • in-securer,
    • end-angered,
    • un healthier,
    • out a limb,
    • on spot,
    • un-safest,
    • un healthiest,
    • un safe,
    • in securer,
    • un healthy,
    • hanging by a thread,
    • off the deep end,
    • un-healthiest,
    • in secure,
    • un-healthy,
    • in-securest,
    • un-safe,
    • wideopen,
    • end angered,
    • in securest,
    • out limb,
    • un-safer,
    • un safest.

    sensitive (adjective)

    • sensatory,
    • turned on to,
    • emotionable,
    • tuned in,
    • sensile,
    • touchy feely,
    • oversensitive,
    • easily affected,
    • sensory,
    • supersensitive,
    • reactive,
    • hypersensitive.

    shifty (adjective)

    • more prevaricatory,
    • more dodging,
    • most shuffling,
    • most unhonest,
    • most dodging,
    • more shuffling,
    • fly by night,
    • more prevaricative,
    • Unhonest,
    • un honest,
    • un-honest,
    • most prevaricatory,
    • more unhonest,
    • most prevaricative.

    shrewd (adjective)

    • in side,
    • dis criminating,
    • Sharker,
    • shrewdest,
    • pro-founder,
    • pro found,
    • on inside,
    • quickwitted,
    • wised up,
    • sharkest,
    • dis-criminating,
    • more argute,
    • most argute,
    • quick witted,
    • pro-found,
    • pro founder,
    • in know.

    slippery (adjective)

    • mutable,
    • in-constant.

    sticky (adjective)

    • dis comforting,
    • most discomforting,
    • un-pleasant,
    • un pleasant,
    • more discomforting,
    • dis-comforting.

    strategic (adjective)

    • de liberate,
    • de-liberate.

    thorny (adjective)

    • most harassing,
    • Harassing,
    • more harassing.

    tight (adjective)

    • ex acting,
    • ex-acting.

    tortuous (adjective)

    • in volute,
    • in-volute.

    touch-and-go (adjective)

    • touch and go.

    touchy (adjective)

    • more pettish,
    • bundle nerves,
    • thinskinned,
    • up tight,
    • most splenetic,
    • most perturbable,
    • badtempered,
    • more perturbable,
    • bad tempered,
    • up-tight,
    • wired up,
    • thin skinned,
    • most pettish,
    • quicktempered.

    treacherous (adjective)

    • most unloyal,
    • more dissembled,
    • false hearted,
    • more betraying,
    • un-faithful,
    • un loyal,
    • un faithful,
    • un-truer,
    • most betraying,
    • un-truest,
    • more unloyal,
    • snake grass,
    • snake the grass,
    • un-loyal,
    • un truest,
    • un truer,
    • most dissembled.

    troublesome (adjective)

    • in tractable,
    • most infestive,
    • in-tractable,
    • in festive,
    • dis-quieting,
    • more murder,
    • un-governable,
    • in-festive,
    • more infestive,
    • most murder,
    • dis quieting.

    trying (adjective)

    • more aggravating,
    • most stressful,
    • pro-vocative,
    • pro vocative,
    • most aggravating,
    • more stressful.

    two-faced (adjective)

    • twofaced,
    • two faced,
    • most backstabbing,
    • more backstabbing.

    undependable (adjective)

    • more trustless,
    • in determinate,
    • in consistent,
    • in definite,
    • un dependable,
    • nogood,
    • most unassured,
    • un-assured,
    • un-sure,
    • un-dependable,
    • in-consistent,
    • more unassured,
    • most trustless,
    • un sure,
    • un assured,
    • trickest,
    • in-definite.

    underhand (adjective)

    • dirty-dealing,
    • on the quiet,
    • dirty dealing.

    unprincipled (adjective)

    • mercentary,
    • stop at nothing,
    • stop-at-nothing.

    unstable (adjective)

    • un stable,
    • un-stable.

    unstable/unsteady (adjective)

    • wigglier,
    • un-steady,
    • un steadier,
    • Teetering,
    • unsteadiest,
    • un stablest,
    • un stabler,
    • most teetering,
    • un-steadiest,
    • wiggliest,
    • more weaving,
    • un steady,
    • un-stabler,
    • un-steadier,
    • more teetering,
    • un-stablest,
    • un steadiest,
    • most weaving,
    • more fluctuating.

    untrustworthy (adjective)

    • more fair-weather,
    • un trustiest,
    • untrustiest,
    • untrustier,
    • more fairweather,
    • most fairweather,
    • un-trusty,
    • more fair weather,
    • fairweather,
    • dis-loyal,
    • dis loyal,
    • finker,
    • un trusty,
    • un-trustier,
    • finkest,
    • un-trustiest,
    • un trustworthy,
    • most fair-weather,
    • most fair weather,
    • un trustier,
    • un-trustworthy.

    witty (adjective)

    • ingenious,
    • brilliant,
    • pointed,
    • joking,
    • funny,
    • quick,
    • waggish,
    • intelligent,
    • pithy,
    • sarcastic,
    • comical,
    • droll,
    • adroit,
    • dry,
    • witty,
    • urbane,
    • resourceful,
    • sparkling,
    • jocular,
    • quick-witted,
    • subtle,
    • smart,
    • deft,
    • facetious,
    • sharp,
    • scurrilous,
    • inventive,
    • scintillating.

    yellow (adjective)

    • lilylivered,
    • lily livered,
    • most chicken,
    • more chicken.
  • n.

    • punishing,
    • challenging,
    • be an effort,
    • taxing.

    • sensitive.

    catchy (noun)

    • catchy.

    foxy (noun)

    • foxy.

    knavish (noun)

    • knavish.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • characteristic,
    • character trait.
  • Other synonyms:

    • yankee.

    • wicked,
    • tortuous,
    • unfair.

    • lying.

    inconstant

    • unsteady.

    Other relevant words (noun):

    • elfish,
    • hidden,
    • untrue,
    • bewilder,
    • satiny,
    • evil,
    • beguile,
    • pretend,
    • conscienceless,
    • composite,
    • frolicsome,
    • wisely,
    • rigorous,
    • knave,
    • skilful,
    • Witted,
    • pseudo,
    • deceive,
    • cannily,
    • timeserving,
    • Discomfiting,
    • traitorous,
    • inscrutable,
    • abstruse,
    • sophistic,
    • trouble,
    • dark,
    • pivot,
    • so-called,
    • contraband,
    • behind ones back,
    • unsound,
    • sneakily,
    • abruptly,
    • delusive,
    • elfin,
    • exacting,
    • lie,
    • luck,
    • Chancey,
    • cheat,
    • bent,
    • slippy,
    • enigma,
    • satanic,
    • felonious,
    • deeply,
    • problem,
    • disloyal,
    • cagey,
    • ambagious,
    • faithless,
    • diabolical,
    • politic,
    • readily,
    • Time-serving,
    • machinery,
    • sagaciously,
    • keenly,
    • plane,
    • wry,
    • confuse,
    • disputed,
    • Subtile,
    • embarrassing,
    • delusory,
    • tinsel,
    • ingeniously,
    • dicky,
    • illusory,
    • ill-gotten,
    • profoundly,
    • insidiously,
    • stealthy,
    • fly,
    • machine,
    • undecided,
    • piercingly,
    • downy,
    • supposititious,
    • fake,
    • trick,
    • arcane,
    • janus-faced,
    • illusive,
    • elaborate,
    • penetratingly,
    • belie,
    • diplomatic,
    • devilish,
    • illegitimate,
    • occult,
    • dishonourable,
    • delude,
    • supple,
    • intelligently,
    • not kosher,
    • ambidextrous,
    • prejudicial,
    • tender,
    • make-believe,
    • opening,
    • tricksy,
    • loaded,
    • chance,
    • aircraft,
    • worrying,
    • mysterious,
    • knowingly,
    • bastard,
    • oily,
    • doubted,
    • indirect,
    • sham,
    • sharply,
    • playful,
    • hard-fought,
    • plausible,
    • craftily,
    • slyly,
    • puzzling,
    • mislead,
    • wickedly,
    • unconscionable,
    • attention-getting,
    • cheating,
    • unconscientious,
    • chanceful,
    • glossy,
    • intriguing,
    • insecure,
    • unsafe,
    • Trickish,
    • confound,
    • bogus,
    • brutal,
    • perilous,
    • betray,
    • feigned,
    • counterfeit,
    • Conspiring,
    • awkward,
    • defraud,
    • believable,
    • hard-earned,
    • deep-laid,
    • ambiguous,
    • indistinct,
    • dissembling,
    • opportune,
    • dickey,
    • dubious,
    • astutely,
    • perplex,
    • underhanded,
    • arrogate,
    • pretended,
    • unsavory,
    • fishy,
    • profess,
    • spiny,
    • questionable,
    • mean,
    • rotten,
    • hallucinatory,
    • criminal,
    • Discomforting,
    • problematical,
    • moot,
    • shaky,
    • unsettled,
    • manipulative,
    • sinister,
    • jesuitical,
    • roundabout,
    • meretricious,
    • prejudiced,
    • subtly,
    • cutely,
    • amoral,
    • slim,
    • debatable,
    • tottery,
    • slimy,
    • cunningly,
    • cryptic,
    • Plated,
    • doubtful,
    • unpredictable,
    • pawky,
    • evasive,
    • bad,
    • aeroplane,
    • no,
    • rickety,
    • expertly,
    • false,
    • specious,
    • lubricious,
    • machiavellian,
    • nefarious,
    • Chiseling,
    • silky,
    • cabbalistic,
    • catchpenny,
    • prankish,
    • casuistic,
    • diplomatically,
    • corrupt,
    • uncertain,
    • knowing,
    • purchasable,
    • mechanics,
    • mock,
    • ENG,
    • charged,
    • keen,
    • adulterated,
    • up to snuff,
    • shrewdly,
    • two-timing,
    • labyrinthine,
    • judiciously,
    • involve,
    • shameless,
    • Prevaricating,
    • corrupted,
    • elvish,
    • Ill-got,
    • smarmy,
    • unctuous,
    • bamboozle,
    • unfathomable,
    • hazardous,
    • promptly,
    • puckish,
    • deceitfully,
    • knotted,
    • in the balance,
    • circuitous,
    • rascal,
    • Covinous,
    • factitious,
    • knot,
    • immoral,
    • suspect,
    • ungenuine,
    • sprightly,
    • obscure,
    • Questioned,
    • event,
    • unpleasant,
    • frightening,
    • hoodwink,
    • steep,
    • dishonorable,
    • airplane,
    • acute,
    • sagely,
    • Equivocating,
    • secret,
    • arch,
    • disguised,
    • cleverly,
    • wise,
    • hypocritical,
    • warped,
    • nerve-racking,
    • difficulty,
    • oblique,
    • suspicious,
    • hairy,
    • duplicitous,
    • opportunity,
    • Deceiving,
    • crucial point,
    • pinchbeck,
    • credible,
    • viciously,
    • glib,
    • trickily,
    • untruthful,
    • disreputable,
    • unsure,
    • tactical,
    • leery,
    • imp,
    • delinquent,
    • deviously,
    • Susceptive,
    • double,
    • severely,
    • indefinite,
    • spurious,
    • artfully,
    • sell,
    • crook,
    • Discerningly,
    • enigmatic,
    • rogue,
    • Contriving,
    • conniving,
    • Difficile,
    • greasy,
    • surreptitious,
    • occasion,
    • acutely,
    • conundrum,
    • carefully,
    • Plotting,
    • trap,
    • Colorable,
    • cagy,
    • unethical,
    • reptilian,
    • ready,
    • adroitly,
    • nerve-wracking,
    • circumvent,
    • sportive,
    • sleek,
    • Subdolous,
    • tactful,
    • dangerous,
    • no picnic,
    • mephistophelian,
    • Operose,
    • fallacious,
    • incomprehensible,
    • indecipherable,
    • silken,
    • unscrupulous,
    • not easy,
    • beguiling,
    • equivocal,
    • smartly,
    • shy,
    • crooked,
    • prudently,
    • unjust,
    • scamped,
    • wise man,
    • insidious,
    • pat,
    • scary,
    • cute,
    • esoteric,
    • artificial,
    • recondite,
    • unsportsmanlike,
    • Foxlike,
    • finagling,
    • uncomfortable,
    • provocative,
    • parlous,
    • controversial,
    • disputable,
    • complicate,
    • profound,
    • aptly.

How to use «Tricky» in context?

Tricky can refer to anything that is difficult or challenging to do. In the business world, it often means finding a way to do something that seems impossible. This is especially true in the field of marketing, where it can be difficult to get people to take notice of your product or service. There are a number of ways to overcome these challenges, and the most important thing is to find the right way to do it. Here are four tips for getting the most out of your tricky marketing strategy:

1. segment your tricky campaign correctly

Before you start your tricky campaign, you need to think about which target market you want to reach.

Paraphrases for Tricky:

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  • Independent

    • Adjective
      arduous, burdensome, clever, contentious, controversial, crafty, critical, dangerous, daunting, dicey, elusive, embarrassing, emotive, fragile, hard, inconvenient, messy, onerous, painstaking, precarious, sophisticated, sore, spiny, subtle, tiresome, troubled, vicious.
    • Proper noun, singular
      pitfalls.
  • Other Related

    • Adjective
      awkward, challenging, complex, complicated, confusing, convoluted, cumbersome, delicate, intractable, intricate, laborious, problematic, problematical, sensitive, thorny, touchy, tough, troublesome.
    • Proper noun, singular
      tricks.

Homophones for Tricky:

  • trickey.

Collins

1    complicated, delicate, difficult, knotty, problematic, risky, sticky     (informal)   thorny, ticklish, touch-and-go  

2    artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceptive, devious, foxy, scheming, slippery, sly, subtle, wily  
  
Antonyms     
  

1    clear, easy, obvious, simple, straightforward, uncomplicated  

2    above board, artless, direct, genuine, honest, ingenuous, open, sincere, truthful  

English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus  

Collins

tricky

     ( trickier    comparative)   ( trickiest    superlative  )

1       adj   If you describe a task or problem as tricky, you mean that it is difficult to do or deal with.  
Parking can be tricky in the town centre…     

2       adj   If you describe a person as tricky, you mean that they are likely to deceive you or cheat you.  
usu ADJ n  

Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary  

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  • complex
  • critical
  • delicate
  • intricate
  • knotty
  • precarious
  • problematic
  • risky
  • rocky
  • sensitive
  • sticky
  • thorny
  • ticklish
  • touchy
  • unstable
  • catchy
  • involved
  • perplexing
  • quirky
  • touch-and-go
  • undependable
  • shifty
  • slippery
  • smooth
  • subtle
  • treacherous
  • artful
  • astute
  • cagey
  • catchy
  • clever
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceitful
  • deep
  • delusive
  • delusory
  • devious
  • dishonest
  • foxy
  • greasy
  • guileful
  • insidious
  • intelligent
  • keen
  • misleading
  • scheming
  • shady
  • sharp
  • shrewd
  • slick
  • streetwise
  • wily
  • witted
  • wry

On this page you’ll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tricky, such as: complex, critical, delicate, intricate, knotty, and precarious.

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  • honest
  • aboveboard
  • frank

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WORDS RELATED TO TRICKY

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  • vulpine
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  • Machiavellian
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  • deep
  • fancy footwork
  • foxy
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  • keen
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  • sharp
  • shifty
  • shrewd
  • slick
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  • sly
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  • street-smart
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  • subtle
  • tricky
  • wary
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  • artful
  • astucious
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  • beguiling
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  • counterfeit
  • crafty
  • cunning
  • deceiving
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  • delusive
  • delusory
  • designing
  • disingenuous
  • double-dealing
  • duplicitous
  • fallacious
  • false
  • feline
  • foxy
  • fraudulent
  • furtive
  • guileful
  • hypocritical
  • illusory
  • impostrous
  • indirect
  • insidious
  • knavish
  • lying
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  • rascal
  • roguish
  • shifty
  • slick
  • sly
  • sneaky
  • stealthy
  • subtle
  • treacherous
  • tricky
  • two-faced
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • untrustworthy
  • untruthful
  • wily

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