| Main Entry: | seem |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appear; give the impression |
Synonyms: |
assume, 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, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, look, look as if, look like, look to be, make a show of, pretend, resemble, show, show every sign of, sound, sound like, strike one as being, suggest |
Antonyms: |
be real |
| Main Entry: | seeming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | apparent |
Synonyms: |
appearing, illusive, illusory, ostensible, outward, professed, quasi-, semblant, specious, surface |
Antonyms: |
real, true |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | behave in a certain way |
Synonyms: |
appear, behave, carry, carry oneself, carry out, comport, conduct, do, enact, execute, exert, function, give the appearance, go about, impress as, operate, perform, play part, react, represent oneself, seem, serve, strike, take on |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
Synonyms: |
assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outward show; pretense |
Synonyms: |
aura, beard, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision |
Antonyms: |
reality |
| Main Entry: | complexion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone's character |
Synonyms: |
appearance, aspect, cast, countenance, disposition, guise, humor, ilk, individualism, individuality, kind, light, look, make-up, nature, personality, seeming, semblance, sort, stamp, style, temper, temperament, type |
| Main Entry: | credible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believable |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, colorable, conceivable, conclusive, creditable, dependable, determinative, honest, honest to God, imaginable, likely, plausible, possible, probable, probably, rational, reasonable, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, seeming, sincere, solid, sound, straight, supposable, tenable, thinkable, trustworthy, trusty, up front, valid |
Antonyms: |
implausible, impossible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unlikely, untenable |
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
Synonyms: |
ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, 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 |
Antonyms: |
forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
| Main Entry: | delusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceptive |
Synonyms: |
apparent, beguiling, chimerical, deceiving, deluding, fallacious, false, fanciful, fantastic, illusive, illusory, imaginary, misleading, ostensible, quixotic, seeming, specious, spurious, visionary |
Antonyms: |
actual, certain, factual, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | do |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act, behave |
Synonyms: |
acquit oneself, appear, bear, carry, come on like, comport, conduct, demean, deport, discourse, enact, fare, get along, get by, give, go on, impersonate, make out, manage, muddle through, operate, perform, personate, play, playact, portray, present, produce, put on*, quit, render the role, seem, stagger along |