tricky

Speech parts

1. tricky - Adjective

2. tricky - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Given to tricks; practicing deception; trickish; knavish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

foxy slippery cunning slick sly crafty wily knavish dodgy guileful catchy byzantine machiavellian complex difficult

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Antonyms

frank elementary natural open real simple

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Related terms

trick

Phrases with the word

tricky situation tricky problem tricky as a monkey as tricky as a monkey tricky acrobat tricky crooked

Derivatives

trickier trickiest

Examples

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. Donella Meadows

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. Lynn Abbey

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. Leo Burnett

Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different. Arthur Conan Doyle

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed. Hugh Laurie

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. Bill Bruford

Close letter words and terms

trickstress tricksy tricktrack tricky acrobat tricky as a monkey tricky crooked