| Main Entry: | actor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who performs, entertains by role-playing |
Synonyms: |
amateur, artist, barnstormer, bit player, character, clown, comedian, entertainer, extra, foil, ham, hambone, headliner, idol, impersonator, ingénue, lead, mime, mimic, pantomimist, performer, play-actor, player, soubrette, stand-in, star, stooge, straight person, thesp, thespian, trouper, understudy, ventriloquist, villain, walk-on |
Antonyms: |
audience, fan |
| Main Entry: | hypocrite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends, is deceitful |
Synonyms: |
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |
| Main Entry: | mimic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who imitates |
Synonyms: |
actor, caricaturist, comedian, copycat, imitator, impersonator, impressionist, mime, mummer, parodist, parrot, performer, playactor, player, thespian, trouper |
| Main Entry: | player |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who acts in performance |
Synonyms: |
actor, bit player, entertainer, extra, ham, hambone, impersonator, lead, mime, mimic, performer, playactor, scene stealer, stand-in, star, thespian, trouper, understudy, walk-on |
Antonyms: |
director |
| Main Entry: | quack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends to be an expert |
Synonyms: |
actor, bum*, bunco artist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, counterfeit, counterfeiter, fake, faker, flimflammer, four-flusher, fraud, hoser, humbug, impostor, mountebank, phony, playactor, pretender, pseudo*, put-on, quacksalver, sham, shammer, shark, sharp*, simulator, slicker, whip* |
| Main Entry: | thespian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | actor, actress |
Synonyms: |
artist, bit player, character, entertainer, extra, ham, headliner, idol, lead, performer, play-actor, player, star, straight person, thesp, understudy |
| Main Entry: | tartuffe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrite |
Synonyms: |
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake*, faker, four-flusher, fraud*, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, pharisee, phony*, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |