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say it: CHEE-ting
cheating is an adjective and noun meaning "not faithful to a spouse or lover". It carries 3 recorded senses.
not faithful to a spouse or lover
“adulterous husbands and wives”
“a two-timing boyfriend”
violating accepted standards or rules
“a dirty fighter”
“used foul means to gain power”
“a nasty unsporting serve”
“fined for unsportsmanlike behavior”
a deception for profit to yourself
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cheating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.