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Main Entry: seeming
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: apparent
Synonyms: illusive, illusory, ostensible, outward, professed, specious, surface, appearing, quasi-, semblant
Antonyms: real, true
Main Entry: seem
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: appear; give the impression
Synonyms: assume, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, look, pretend, resemble, show, sound, suggest, be suggestive of, convey the impression, create the impression, give the feeling of, give the idea of, have the appearance of, have the aspects of, have the earmarks of, have the features of, have the qualities of, look as if, look like, look to be, make a show of, show every sign of, sound like, strike one as being
Antonyms: be real
Main Entry: acting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: entertaining, performing
Synonyms: assuming, depiction, enactment, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, performance, portrayal, pretending, pretense, rendition, seeming, theatre, characterization, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, feigning, hamming, pantomime, play acting, playing, portraying, posing, posturing, putting, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatricals
Main Entry: credible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believable
Synonyms: aboveboard, conceivable, conclusive, creditable, dependable, honest, imaginable, likely, plausible, possible, probable, probably, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, seeming, sincere, solid, sound, straight, tenable, thinkable, trustworthy, trusty, up front, valid, colorable, determinative, honest to God, supposable
Notes: credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible'
Antonyms: implausible, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unlikely, untenable
Main Entry: deceptive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dishonest
Synonyms: ambiguous, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, delusive, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced*, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily, astucious, beguiling, deceiving, deluding, delusory, imposturous
Antonyms: forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright
Main Entry: delusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceptive
Synonyms: apparent, chimerical, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary, beguiling, deceiving, deluding
Antonyms: actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful
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: illusion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: false appearance; false belief
Synonyms: apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus*, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream*, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality
Antonyms: certainty, event, fact, reality, truth
Main Entry: illusory/illusive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceptive, false
Synonyms: apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fake, fallacious, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, ideal, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pseudo*, seeming, sham*, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, blue-sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious
Antonyms: certain, factual, real, sure, true
Main Entry: likely
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: probable, apt, hopeful
Synonyms: acceptable, achievable, anticipated, attainable, conceivable, credible, destined, disposed, expected, fair, favorite, feasible, given to, imaginable, inclined, liable, ostensible, plausible, possible, practicable, predisposed, presumable, promising, prone, rational, reasonable, seeming, subject to, tending, thinkable, true, up-and-coming*, workable, assuring, believeable, conjecturable, in favor of, in the cards, in the habit of, inferable, odds-on, on the verge of, supposable, verisimilar
Antonyms: implausible, inapt, unforeseeable, unlikely
Main Entry: ostensible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alleged, supposed
Synonyms: apparent, avowed, demonstrative, exhibited, illusive, illusory, likely, manifest, notable, outward, plausible, pretended, professed, quasi, seeming, so-called*, specious, superficial, colorable, purported, semblant
Antonyms: improbable, obscure, unlikely, vague
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: probable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: likely to happen
Synonyms: apparent, believable, credible, earthly, feasible, illusory, mortal, ostensible, plausible, possible, presumable, rational, reasonable, seeming, in the cards, most likely, odds-on, presumed
Antonyms: improbable, unlikely
Main Entry: quasi
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: almost; to a certain extent
Synonyms: apparent, apparently, fake, mock, near, nominal, partly, pretended, seeming, seemingly, sham*, so-called, supposedly, synthetic, virtual, would-be*, pseudo-, semi-
Antonyms: entire, total, whole
Main Entry: reputed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believed
Synonyms: alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, estimated, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, thought, accounted, deemed, gossiped, reckoned, regarded, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository
Antonyms: actual, real, true
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
Main Entry: specious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: misleading
Synonyms: apparent, captious, credible, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely, nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable, presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong, apparently right, beguiling, casuistic, colorable, sophistic, sophistical
Antonyms: real, true, valid
Main Entry: superficial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without depth, detail
Synonyms: apparent, casual, cosmetic, cursory, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, frivolous, general, glib, half-baked*, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, perfunctory, peripheral, seeming, shallow, shoal, silly, sketchy, skin-deep*, slapdash*, slight, summary, surface, trivial, uncritical, depthless, nodding, on the surface, one-dimensional, quick-fix, smattery, tip of the iceberg, warped
Antonyms: analytical, careful, deep, detailed, genuine, thorough
Main Entry: illusory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deceptive
Synonyms: apparent, chimerical, deceitful, delusive, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, fictitious, float, ideal, illusive, imaginary, misleading, mistaken, ostensible, pipe dream, seeming, sham, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, Barmecidal, blue sky, delusory, fictional, fictive, hallucinatory, semblant, suppositious, supposititious
Antonyms: genuine, real
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