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Definitions for Wile

[1] a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
[2] wiles, artful or beguiling behavior.
[3] deceitful cunning; trickery.
[4] to beguile, entice, or lure (usually followed by away, from, into, etc.): The music wiled him from his study.
[5] wile away , to spend or pass (time), especially in a leisurely or pleasurable fashion: to wile away the long winter nights.
[6] trickery, cunning, or craftiness
[7] (usually plural) an artful or seductive trick or ploy
[8] (tr) to lure, beguile, or entice

Words related to Wile

stratagem, guile, artfulness, scam, twist, device, artifice, racket, gimmick, fraud, plot, cheating, deception, trickery, dishonesty, ploy, dodge, maneuver, lure, slant

Words nearby Wile

wildland, wildlands, wildlife, wildling, wildwood, wile, wilfred, wilfrid, wilful, wilga, wilhelm

Origin of Wile

1125–75; (noun) Middle English; late Old English wil, perhaps < Old Norse vēl artifice, earlier *wihl-

Words that may be confused with Wile

while, wile

Other words from Wile

out·wile , verb (used with object), out·wiled, out·wil·ing.

Word origin for Wile

C12: from Old Norse vel craft; probably related to Old French wīle, Old English wīgle magic. See guile

Synonyms for Wile

guile, stratagem, angle, artfulness, artifice, cheating, chicane, chicanery, con, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dissimulation, dodge, feint, flimflam, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, hoax, horseplay, imposition, lure, maneuver, plot, ploy, racket, ruse, scam, setup, shenanigans, skullduggery, slant, slyness, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist, little game, monkey business, monkeyshines, scheming