Thesaurus:thief
English
Noun
Sense: one who unlawfully takes something
Synonyms
- abstractor (euphemism)
- appropriator (euphemism)
- bagger
- booster
- borrower [⇒ thesaurus] (euphemism)
- cribber
- faker (obsolete)
- filcher
- flogger (Australia, NZ)
- heister
- larcener
- larcenist
- liberator (euphemism)
- lifter
- misappropriator (euphemism)
- nicker
- pincher
- purloiner
- snitch
- stealer
- tea leaf (Cockney rhyming slang)
- thief
- thiever
Hyponyms
- bandit [⇒ thesaurus]
- brigand
- burglar [⇒ thesaurus]
- cutpurse
- confidence trickster [⇒ thesaurus]
- converter
- dacoit (India)
- dragsman
- fraudster [⇒ thesaurus]
- highwayman [⇒ thesaurus]
- kleptomaniac
- looter
- pickpocket [⇒ thesaurus]
- pirate [⇒ thesaurus]
- plunderer [⇒ thesaurus]
- poacher
- porch pirate
- rustler [⇒ thesaurus]
- snagger
- snatcher
- sneak thief
- swiper
- People
- Words & ideas
- Vehicles
- Safes
- cracksman (archaic)
- safebreaker
- safecracker
- Embezzlers
- Petty thieves
- With violence
- bank robber
- mugger
- ravisher (obsolete)
- robber
- With a pole
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “792. thief” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “thief” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.