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imposition - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | imposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, con, fraud, hoax, hocus-pocus*, hypocrisy, illusion, imposture, stratagem, trick, trickery, craftiness, dissimulation |
| Antonyms: | honesty, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | charge, command, constraint, demand, drag, duty, encroachment, encumbrance, intrusion, levy, pain, pain in the neck*, pressure, presumption, restraint, tax |
| Antonyms: | advantage, aid, benefit, blessing, help, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | question, request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, application, bid, bidding, call, call for, charge, claim, clamor, command, entreaty, imposition, inquiry, insistence, interest, interrogation, lien, necessity, need, occasion, order, petition, plea, prayer, pursuit, requirement, requisition, rush, sale, search, stipulation, suit, supplication, trade, ultimatum, use, vogue, want, arrogation, counterclaim, entreatment, exaction, impetration, imploration, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | grant, offer, reply |
| Main Entry: | enforcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement to obey; implementation of rule(s) |
| Synonyms: | administration, application, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, execution, imposition, insistence, lash, martial law, obligation, prescription, pressure, prosecution, reinforcement, spur, whip, carrying out, compulsory law, enforcing, exaction, fulfilling, impulsion, necessitation |
| Antonyms: | abandon, disregard, forgetfulness, neglect, renunciation, slight |
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imposter, copy |
| Synonyms: | actor, charlatan, cheat, counterfeit, deception, fabrication, flimflam*, forgery, fraud, hoax, imitation, imposition, imposture, make-believe, mountebank, phony, plant*, pretender, pretense, pseudo*, reproduction, scam, sham*, sleight, spoof, swindle, trick, bluffer, faker, four-flusher, gold brick, junque, put-on |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Antonyms: | original, reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forgery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counterfeiting; counterfeit item |
| Synonyms: | bogus*, carbon*, carbon copy, cheat, copy, fabrication, fake, imitating, imitation, imposition, imposture, phony, pseudo, sham*, twin, coining, faking, falsification, fraudulence, lookalike, workalike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imposture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fraud, trick |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheat, con, copy, counterfeit, deceit, deception, fabrication, fake, feint, fiddle, flimflam*, forgery, gambit, hoax, hocus-pocus*, illusion, imitation, impersonation, imposition, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, phony, ploy, pretense, pretension, quackery, ruse, sell*, sham, sleight, spoof, stratagem, swindle, wile, put-on |
| Antonyms: | honesty, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | levy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assessment, tax |
| Synonyms: | burden, collection, custom, duty, excise, fee, gathering, imposition, impost, muster, tariff, toll, exaction |
| Main Entry: | swindle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cheating, stealing |
| Synonyms: | blackmail, cheat, con, deceit, deception, dirty pool*, double-dealing*, extortion, fake, fraud, hoax, hustle, imposition, imposture, racket*, rip-off*, scam, sell, shakedown, sham, shell game*, sting, trick, trickery, crooked deal, double cross, fast one, fast shuffle, frame-up, knavery, shady deal, sharp practice |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, donation, gift |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cunning |
| Synonyms: | angle, artifice, cheating, chicanery, con*, contrivance, craft, deceit, deception, device, dishonesty, dodge, feint, flimflam*, fraud, gambit, game, gimmick, guile, hoax, horseplay, imposition, lure, maneuver, monkey business*, plot, ploy, racket*, ruse, scam*, scheming, setup, shenanigans*, skullduggery*, slant, stratagem, stunt, subterfuge, switch, trick, trickery, twist, artfulness, chicane, craftiness, dissimulation, little game, monkeyshines, slyness |
| Antonyms: | stupidity, naivety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, slander, slight, spite, transgression, trespass, turpitude, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing, bad deed, immorality, misdoing, sinfulness, tort, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
| Main Entry: | intrusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interruption |
| Synonyms: | encroachment, imposition, incursion, infraction, inroad, interference, intervention, invasion, meddling, transgression, trespass, forced entrance, impingement, interposition, obtrusion, overrunning, overstepping |
| Main Entry: | laying on of hands |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Christian rite |
| Synonyms: | imposition, faith healing, gift of healing |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | directive, instruction |
| Synonyms: | act, ban, behest, bidding, call, canon, caveat, charge, citation, commandment, decree, demand, dictate, dictation, dictum, direction, duty, edict, enactment, fiat, imperative, imposition, injunction, law, mandate, notification, obligation, order, ordinance, precept, prescript, proclamation, prohibition, regulation, request, requirement, requisition, responsibility, rule, subpoena, summons, ultimatum, warrant, will, word, writ, adjuration, devoir, exaction, interdiction, proscription |
| Antonyms: | contradiction, countermand, opposition, recall, reversal, revocation |
| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practice of misleading |
| Synonyms: | artifice, cheating, chicanery, craft, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, dirty pool*, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, pretense, smoke and mirrors*, treachery, trickery, two-timing, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, chicane, cozening, craftiness, defrauding, dirty dealing, dissemblance, dissimulation, entrapping, fraudulence, overreaching, slyness, trapping, two-facedness, underhandedness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading; being dishonest |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, blarney*, cheat, cunning, deceit, deceitfulness, dirt, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, falsehood, flimflam*, fraud, guile, hypocrisy, imposition, insincerity, juggling, legerdemain, lying, mendacity, pretense, prevarication, snow job*, sophism, treachery, treason, trickery, trumpery, untruth, beguilement, boondoggle, circumvention, cozenage, craftiness, deceptiveness, defraudation, disinformation, dissimulation, dupery, fast one, fraudulence, hokum, trickiness |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty, honor, truth, truthfulness, uprightness, openness, trustworthiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disadvantage(s) |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty, trouble |
| Synonyms: | bar, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience, lack, liability, limitation, minus, nuisance, objection, obstacle, privation, problem, restraint, snag, stumbling block*, weakness, adverse circumstance, blocking, discommodity, fly in the ointment, inutility, weak point |
| Antonyms: | advantage, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charge levied by government on property, income |
| Synonyms: | assessment, bite*, contribution, cost, custom, dues, duty, excise, expense, fine, imposition, impost, levy, obligation, pork barrel*, price, rate, salvage, tariff, toll, tribute, brokerage, capitation, giveaway, tithe, towage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile, circumvention |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tax |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burden |
| Synonyms: | albatross*, charge, demand, difficulty, drain, duty, imposition, load, millstone*, onus, pressure, strain, task, weight, deadweight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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