Thesaurus:thief

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]
• 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

• abductor
• kidnapper

Words & ideas

• cribber
• plagiarist

Vehicles

• carjacker
• hijacker
• jacker
• twocker (UK)

Safes

• cracksman (archaic)
• safebreaker
• safecracker

Embezzlers

• embezzler
• peculator

Petty thieves

• prig
• sheep-biter
• shoplifter
• sticky fingers

With violence

• bank robber
• mugger
• ravisher (obsolete)
• robber

With a pole

• angler
• hooker
• nuthook

Hypernyms

• criminal    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grabber
• possessor    [⇒ thesaurus]
• seizer
• taker    [⇒ thesaurus]
• villain    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:deceiver
• Thesaurus:steal
• Thesaurus:theft

Further reading

• “792. thief” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “thief” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.