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facade - 20 thesaurus results
| 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: | façade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false front |
| Synonyms: | appearance, cloak, coloring, cover, disguise, disguisement, face, front, guise, mask, masquerade, pretense, semblance, show, veil, veneer, window-dressing |
| Main Entry: | façade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forward surface |
| Synonyms: | face, front, frontage, frontispiece, building front, front view |
| 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: | blind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | screen, covering |
| Synonyms: | blinder, camouflage, cloak, cover, curtain, facade, front, mask, trap, veil, blindfold, blinker |
| 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: | decoy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bait, trap |
| Synonyms: | attraction, beard*, blind, booster, camouflage, catch, chicanery, come-on, deception, enticement, facade, fake, front, imitation, inducement, lure, plant, pretense, sitting duck*, snare, stick, stool pigeon*, temptation, trick, trickery, allurement, blow off*, chicane, drawing card, ensnarement, inveiglement, nark, seducement, shill, stoolie |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | 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
| 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
| Main Entry: | masquerade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise; social occasion for disguises |
| Synonyms: | Mardi Gras, carnival, circus, cloak, color, costume, cover, cover-up, deception, facade, festivity, front, guise, impersonation, imposture, mask, masked ball, pose, pretense, revel, screen, show, subterfuge, veil, costume ball, dissimulation, domino, masking, mummery, personation, put-on |
| Main Entry: | outside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exterior; out-of-doors |
| Synonyms: | appearance, covering, facade, face, front, integument, open, open air, outdoors, seeming, sheath, skin, surface, without, topside |
| Antonyms: | center, indoors, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | pose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artificial position |
| Synonyms: | act, affectation, air, attitude, bearing, carriage, facade, fake, front, guise, mannerism, masquerade, mien, posture, pretense, pretension, role, stance, stand, attitudinizing, false show, positure, posturing |
| Antonyms: | movement |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, double-dealing*, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, pretext, routine, ruse, semblance, sham*, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile, dissimulation, dumb act, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, schtick, shuffling |
| Antonyms: | honesty, reality, truth, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
| Synonyms: | affinity, air, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front*, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, veil, veneer, alikeness, simulacrum |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sham |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hoax, trick |
| Synonyms: | burlesque, cant, caricature, cheat, counterfeit, cover-up, deceit, deception, facade, fake, false front, farce, feint, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hypocrisy, imitation, impostor, imposture, mock, mockery, pretend, pretense, pretext, pseudo*, sell, smoke*, snow job*, spoof, travesty, whitewash, fakery, hypocriticalness, jive*, pharisaism, phoniness, put-on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | surface |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | external part of something |
| Synonyms: | area, cover, covering, expanse, exterior, facade, face, facet, level, obverse, outside, peel, periphery, plane, rind, side, skin, stretch, top, veneer, exteriority, externality, superficiality, superficies |
| Antonyms: | core, inside, interior, middle |
| Main Entry: | veil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disguise |
| Synonyms: | blind, cloak, coloring, cover, curtain, facade, false front, film, front, guise, mask, screen, shade, shroud, mantilla, veiling |
| Notes: | vale is a poetic word for valley; a veil is a thin curtainlike covering or shield |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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