| Main Entry: | charade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
Synonyms: |
deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
Synonyms: |
beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreality |
Synonyms: |
charade, disguise, dissimulation, dream, fairy tale, fakery, fantasy, imagination, pageant, playacting, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, sham |
Antonyms: |
reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
Synonyms: |
abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
Antonyms: |
known, understanding |
| Main Entry: | pageant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacle or contest |
Synonyms: |
celebration, charade, display, exhibition, exposition, extravaganza, fair, make-believe, motorcade, parade, pomp, procession, ritual, show, tableau |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
Synonyms: |
act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile |
Antonyms: |
honesty, openness, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | airs, snobbishness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory, vanity |
Antonyms: |
honesty, humility |
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false claim, assertion of importance |
Synonyms: |
allegation, ambition, ambitiousness, aspiration, assumption, charade, declaration, demand, disguise, maintenance, make-believe, pageant, pretense, pretext, profession, title |
Antonyms: |
honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brain-teaser |
Synonyms: |
bewilderment, brain-twister, charade, closed book, complexity, complication, confusion, conundrum, cryptogram, dilemma, distraction, doubt, embarrassment, enigma, entanglement, intricacy, knotty question, labyrinth, maze, mind-boggler, mystery, mystification, perplexity, plight, poser, predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, question, rebus, sixty-four dollar question, stickler, strait, stumper, teaser, tough nut to crack, tough proposition, twister |
| Main Entry: | grandioseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretentiousness |
Synonyms: |
affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, grandiosity, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, va, vainglory |