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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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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
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-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.
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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | features |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facial characteristics |
| Synonyms: | appearance, countenance, face, mien, mug*, physiognomy, visage, lineaments, looks, puss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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