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disguise - 20 thesaurus results
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, dress, facade, face, false front*, front*, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pseudonym, red herring*, screen, semblance, smoke screen*, trickery, veil, veneer, dissimulation, faking, fig leaf, get-up, pretentiousness, put-on
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mask; misrepresent
Synonyms: affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms: expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask
Main Entry: charade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretense
Synonyms: deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, parody, pretension, travesty, trick, pantomime, pretentiousness, put-on
Main Entry: cloak
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cover; coat
Synonyms: beard, blind, camouflage, cape, disguise, facade, face, front, guise, mantle, mask, pretext, semblance, shawl, shield, show, veneer, wrap, capote, manteau
Main Entry: clothe
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cover with apparel
Synonyms: apparel, array, attire, caparison, cloak, coat, costume, deck, disguise, do up*, drape, dress, dress up, dud*, endow, equip, fit, garb, gown, guise, habit, invest, jacket, mantle, outfit, primp, raiment, rig, robe, spruce, swaddle, swathe, turn out, vest, accouter, bedizen, bedrape, breech, bundle up, dandify, dizen, endue, enwrap, fit out, habilitate, livery, suit up, tog
Antonyms: reveal, take off, uncover, unclothe
Main Entry: concealment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hiding, secrecy
Synonyms: beard, blind, camouflage, cover, cover-up, covering, curtain, disguise, front, hideaway, mask, privacy, red herring*, secretion, smoke screen*, veil, dissimulation, fig leaf, hide-out, laundromat, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, wraps
Antonyms: disclosure, exposition, revelation, showing, telling, divulgence
Main Entry: excuse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reason, explanation
Synonyms: alibi, apology, cover*, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story*, grounds, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, routine, semblance, shift, song*, song and dance*, stall, stopgap*, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick*, vindication, whitewash*, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, coverup, jive*, rationalization, regrets, why and wherefore
Notes: an alias is an assumed name, an alibi is a form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed, while an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness
a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness
Main Entry: facade
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appearance, often deceptive
Synonyms: beard*, bluff, color, disguise, exterior, face, fake, false front*, front, guise, look, mask, phony, pretense, semblance, show, veneer, window dressing*, false colors, frontage, put-on
Antonyms: character, personality
Main Entry: fake
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend
Synonyms: act, affect, assume, bluff, copy, counterfeit, disguise, dissimulate, fabricate, feign, forge, put on, put on an act*, sham, simulate, spoof
Main Entry: guise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appearance, pretense
Synonyms: air, aspect, behavior, cloak, color, cover, demeanor, disguise, dress, facade, face, false front*, fashion, form, front, mask, mien, mode, pose, posture, role, seeming, semblance, shape, show, showing, disguisement, false show, simulacrum
Antonyms: reality
Main Entry: hide
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conceal; remain unseen
Synonyms: adumbrate, bury, cache, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain*, disguise, dissemble, ditch, duck, eclipse, ensconce, harbor, hold back, hole up*, hush up, mask, obscure, plant, protect, reserve, salt away*, screen, secrete, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, smuggle, stifle, suppress, veil, withhold, blot out, go into hiding, go underground, keep from, keep secret, lie low, lock up, not give away, not tell, put out of the way, squirrel, stash, stow away, take cover, tuck away
Antonyms: bare, disclose, divulge, exhibit, expose, open, reveal, show, tell, uncover, unmask, lay bare, let out
Main Entry: juggle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mislead, falsify; handle several things at once
Synonyms: alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, double-cross, fix, humbug*, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, shuffle, take in, trim, illude, perform magic, prestidigitate, tamper with
Antonyms: be honest
Main Entry: make-believe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unreality
Synonyms: charade, disguise, dream, fairy tale, fantasy, imagination, pageant, pretense, pretension, sham, dissimulation, fakery, playacting, pretentiousness
Antonyms: reality, truth
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
Main Entry: misrepresent/misquote
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie, distort
Synonyms: adulterate, angle, beard*, belie, build up, cloak, color, con, confuse, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, mangle, mask, misinterpret, misstate, overstate, palter, pervert, pirate*, prevaricate, promote, puff*, skew, slant, snow*, stretch, twist, warp, cover up, give snow job, miscolor, misreport, overdraw, phony up, spread it on, take out of context, throw a curve, trump up
Antonyms: explain, be forthright, be honest
Main Entry: obscure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: conceal, hide
Synonyms: adumbrate, becloud, bedim, belie, blear, blind, block, block out, blur, camouflage, cloak, cloud, con, confuse, cover, darken, dim, disguise, double-talk*, eclipse, equivocate, falsify, fog, fuzz, gloom, gray, haze, mask, misrepresent, mist, muddy, murk, obfuscate, overcast, overshadow, screen, shade, shadow, shroud, stonewall*, veil, wrap, befog, cloud the issue, cover up, muddy the waters, overcloud, pettifog, throw up smoke screen
Antonyms: illuminate, loose, reveal
Main Entry: palliate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gloss over; cover up
Synonyms: abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, camouflage, cloak, conceal, condone, cover, diminish, disguise, dissemble, ease, exculpate, excuse, extenuate, hide, hush up*, justify, lessen, lighten, mask, minimize, mitigate, moderate, mollify, qualify, quick fix*, relieve, screen, soften, soothe, sugarcoat*, temper, varnish, veil, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten, whitewash*, apologize for, gloze, make light of, prettify, put on a Band-Aid
Antonyms: accuse, blame, condemn
Main Entry: simulate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend, imitate
Synonyms: act, affect, ape, assume, bluff, borrow, cheat, concoct, copy, counterfeit, crib*, deceive, disguise, dissemble, do, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, favor, feature, feign, fence, invent, knock off*, lie, lift, make believe, mimic, mirror, misrepresent, phony, pirate, play, pose, prevaricate, put on*, put on an act*, reproduce, resemble, steal, act like, do a take-off, do like, gloss over, playact, replicate
Antonyms: be real
Main Entry: veil
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: hide
Synonyms: beard*, blanket, camouflage, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain*, dim, disguise, drape, enclose, enfold, enshroud, envelop, finesse, invest, launder, mantle, mask, obscure, screen, secrete, shield, shroud, stonewall*, whitewash*, wrap, cover up, put up a front
Antonyms: reveal
Main Entry: veneer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pretense, front
Synonyms: appearance, coating, cover, covering, disguise, exterior, facade, face, finish, gloss, guise, layer, leaf, mask, overlay, semblance, show, surface, window dressing*
Antonyms: reality
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