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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false front; appearance given |
| Synonyms: | affectation, air, display, effect, face*, front, grandstand play, guise, illusion, impression, likeness, make-believe, ostentation, parade, pose, pretense, pretext, profession, seeming, semblance, sham, shine*, showboat, showing, simulacrum, splash* |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | veneer is a very thin layer of material or superficiality; venire is a panel of prospective jurors from which a jury is selected |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | way |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | characteristic, habit |
| Synonyms: | aspect, behavior, circumstance, condition, conduct, consuetude, custom, detail, fashion, feature, fettle, form, gait, groove, guise, hook, idiosyncrasy, kick*, manner, nature, particular, personality, point, practice, praxis, respect, sense, shape, shot, situation, state, status, style, thing*, tone, trait, trick, usage, use, wont |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | false front |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | façade |
| Synonyms: | disguise, display, front, guise, image, mask, mere façade, public image, sham, veneer, window dressing |
| Main Entry: | disguisement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | façade |
| Synonyms: | camouflage, cloak, concealment, cover-up, disguise, false front, front, guise, mask, masquerade, veil, veneer |
| 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: | getup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dress |
| Synonyms: | Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, attire, attirement, civvies, costume, covering, drape, dry goods, duds, ensemble, evening clothes, frock, garb, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, muumuu, outfit, raiment, robe, shift, skirt, smock, suit, things* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kisser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | face |
| Synonyms: | countenance, feature, features, frown, glower, grimace, guise, mask, mug, muzzle, physiognomy, pout, profile, scowl, visage |
| Main Entry: | parallelism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison, conformity, copy, correspondence, counterpart, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identicalness, identity, image, knock-off, lookalike, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity, uniformness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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