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disguises - 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deceive |
| Synonyms: | color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, hide, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, give the lie to, gloss over, miscolor, trump up |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceptive appearance |
| Synonyms: | deception, disguise, excuse, facade, face, front, guise, mask, plea, pretense, pretext, semblance, show, false show, put-on |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distort, exaggerate |
| Synonyms: | angle*, belie, cook up*, disguise, doctor*, embroider*, fake, falsify, fudge*, garble, magnify, misrepresent, misstate, overstate, pad*, pervert, prejudice, slant*, taint, twist*, warp*, gloss over |
| Antonyms: | represent, be truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrapping, cover-up |
| Synonyms: | awning, bark, binding, camouflage, canopy, canvas, cap, caparison, case, ceiling, cloak, clothing, coating, covering, coverlet, disguise, dome, dress, drop, envelope, facade, false front*, front, guise, hood, integument, jacket, lid, marquee, mask, masquerade, overlay, paint, parasol, polish, pretense, roof, screen, seal, semblance, sheath, sheet, shroud, smoke screen*, spread, stopper, tarpaulin, tent, top, umbrella, varnish, veil, veneer, wrapper, fig leaf, put-on, tarp, tegument, window-dressing, wraps |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, bury, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, dress, eclipse, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, protect, put on, screen, secrete, shade, shield, shroud, superimpose, surface, veil, board up, bush up, cover up, do on the sly, encase, overspread, set on, stash, superpose |
| Antonyms: | lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap, lay bare |
| Main Entry: | doctor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adulterate, pervert |
| Synonyms: | add to, alter, change, cut, deacon, debase, dilute, disguise, falsify, fudge*, gloss, load, misrepresent, spike*, water down, weight, dope up, mix with, sophisticate, tamper with |
| Antonyms: | clean, purify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | front of something; expression, exterior |
| Synonyms: | air, appearance, aspect, cast, clock, countenance, dial*, disguise, display, facet, features, finish, frown, glower, grimace, guise, light*, look, makeup, map*, mask, mug*, obverse, paint*, physiognomy, pout, presentation, profile, scowl, seeming, semblance, show, showing, silhouette, smirk, surface, top, visage, frontage, frontal, frontispiece, kisser, lineaments, simulacrum |
| Antonyms: | back, behind, rear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense, nerve |
| Synonyms: | air, audacity, boldness, brass*, cheek*, chutzpah*, cloak, confidence, cover, disguise, effrontery, facade, false front*, front, gall, impertinence, impudence, mask, presumption, semblance, show, veil |
| Antonyms: | character, personality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | front |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appearance put on for show |
| Synonyms: | air, aspect, bearing, blind, carriage, coloring, countenance, cover, cover-up*, demeanor, disguise, display, expression, exterior, facade, face, fake, figure, manner, mask, mien, phony, port, presence, pretext, show, veil, window dressing*, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conceal truth |
| Synonyms: | belie, camouflage, deacon, disguise, doctor, explain, extenuate, falsify, hide, justify, mask, misrepresent, palliate, rationalize, soft-pedal, sugarcoat*, varnish, veil, veneer, white, whiten, whitewash*, cover up, smooth over |
| Antonyms: | clear up, explain, reveal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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