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appearance - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: coming into sight
Synonyms: advent, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, presence, presentation, representation, rise, actualization, appearing, materialization, showing up, turning up, unveiling
Antonyms: absence, departure, disappearance, leaving
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outward aspect, characteristic
Synonyms: air, attitude, bearing, blind, carriage, cast, character, condition, countenance, demeanor, dress, expression, face, fashion, feature, figure, form, front, guise, image, look, manner, mannerism, mien, mode, outline, pose, presence, presentation, screen, semblance, shape, stamp, looks
Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outward show; pretense
Synonyms: aura, beard*, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision
Antonyms: reality
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Main Entry: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
a show of, apparent, aspectable, autoptical, before one, before one's eyes, blatant, clear, conspectable, conspicuous, cutaway, definite, discernible, disclosed, discovered, distinct, doll-faced, epideictic, exposed to view, glaring, hardened, hedgehoggy, illusory, in bold relief, in focus, in full view, in one's eye, in relief, in sight, in strong relief, in view, kenspeckle, masked, obvious, on view, palpable, panoramic, perceivable, perceptible, periscopic, phanic, pie-faced, plain, recognizable, seeming, shifting, skenchback, staring, stereoscopic, telegenic, telephanous, thick-eyed, unclouded, under one's eye, undistinguishable, undistinguished, visible, well-defined, well-marked, whally, xanthomelanous
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle, show, premonstration, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil; lookout, outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape, picture, tableau; display, exposure, mise en scene; rising of the curtain., phantasm, phantom (fallacy of vision) [more]., pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama, georama; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre; pageantry (ostentation) [more]; insignia (indication) [more]., aspect, angle, phase, phasis, seeming; shape (form) [more]; guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor; presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point of view, light., lineament, feature, trait, lines; outline, outside; contour, face, countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz, cast of countenance, profile, tournure, cut of one's jib, metoposcopy; outside [more].
-verbs
appear; be visible, become visible [more]; seem, look, show; present the appearance of, wear the appearance of, carry the appearance of, have the appearance of, bear the appearance of, exhibit the appearance of, take the appearance of, take on the appearance of, assume the appearance, present the semblance of, wear the semblance of, carry the semblance of, have the semblance of, bear the semblance of, exhibit the semblance of, take the semblance of, take on the semblance of, assume the semblance of; look like; cut a figure, figure; present to the view; show (make manifest) [more].
-adjectives
apparent, seeming, ostensible; on view.
-adverbs
apparently; to all seeming, to all appearance; ostensibly, seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie; at the first blush, at first sight; in the eyes of; to the eye.
-phrases
editio princeps.
Antonyms: disappearance
Main Entry: advent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: beginning or arrival of something anticipated
Synonyms: appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance, occurrence, onset, visitation
Antonyms: departure, end
Main Entry: affectation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretended behavior to make an impression
Synonyms: air, airs, appearance, facade, false front*, front, imitation, insincerity, mannerism, pose, pretense, pretension, sham*, show, simulation, artificiality, going Hollywood, pretentiousness, put-on, putting on airs, showing off
Antonyms: simplicity, naturalness
Main Entry: aura
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: air, character
Synonyms: ambience, appearance, aspect, atmosphere, background, emanation, feel, feeling, mood, quality, scent, semblance, suggestion, tone
Main Entry: debut
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: first public appearance
Synonyms: admission, appearance, beginning, bow, entrance, entree, graduation, inauguration, incoming, initiation, introduction, presentation, coming out, coming out party, first step, graduating, launching, opener
Notes: a debut is a first public appearance; a premiere is a first performance, showing, or broadcast
Antonyms: finale, closing
Main Entry: deportment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: carriage, manner of person
Synonyms: actions, address, air, appearance, aspect, bearing, behavior, cast, conduct, demeanor, mien, port, posture, set, stance, comportment
Main Entry: exterior
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: visible part
Synonyms: appearance, aspect, coating, cover, covering, external, facade, face, finish, outside, polish, rind, shell, skin, surface, exteriority, superficies, superstratum
Antonyms: center, core, interior, middle
Main Entry: facet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: surface; aspect
Synonyms: angle, appearance, character, face, feature, front, hand, level, obverse, part, phase, plane, side, slant, switch, twist
Main Entry: fantasy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imagination, dream
Synonyms: Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment*, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: features
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: facial characteristics
Synonyms: appearance, countenance, face, mien, mug*, physiognomy, visage, lineaments, looks, puss
Main Entry: garb
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clothing
Synonyms: apparel, appearance, array, attire, clothes, costume, dress, duds*, form, garment, gear, guise, habiliment, habit, outfit, rags*, raiment, semblance, things*, threads*, uniform, wear, feathers, robes, vestments
Main Entry: ghost
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spirit of the dead
Synonyms: apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, zombie
Antonyms: being, entity
Main Entry: gig
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: show
Synonyms: appearance, concert, employment, engagement, job, performance, recital
Main Entry: likeness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: correspondence in appearance; something that corresponds
Synonyms: Xerox*, affinity, agreement, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparison, conformity, copy, counterpart, dead ringer*, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identity, image, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity, alikeness, analogousness, comparableness, identicalness, knock-off, lookalike, parallelism
Antonyms: difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness
Main Entry: manifestation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: exhibition, proof
Synonyms: appearance, demonstration, disclosure, display, explanation, exposure, expression, indication, instance, mark, meaning, phenomenon, revelation, show, sign, symptom, token, materialization
Antonyms: concealment, cover, hiding, obscurity, vagueness
Main Entry: mask
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false face, cover
Synonyms: affectation, air*, appearance, aspect, beard*, blind, camouflage, cloak*, concealment, cover-up, disguise, facade, front, guise, hood, masquerade, pose, posture, pretense, pretext, screen, semblance, show*, simulation, veil*, veneer, visage, window dressing*, disguisement, dissembling, dissimulation, domino, fig leaf, put-on, visor
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