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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person given to hypocrisy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who assumes a false appearance; one who feigns to be what he is not, or to feel or believe what he does not actually feel or believe; especially, a false pretender to virtue or piety.
  2. n. Synonyms Dissembler, Hypocrite (see dissembler); Pharisee, formalist, cheat.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

Etymologies

  1. Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Ecclesiastical Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritēs, "actor, hypocrite"), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrinomai, "I answer, act, feign"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English ipocrite, from Old French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hupocritēs, actor, from hupokrīnesthai, to play a part, pretend; see hypocrisy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. pretender
  1. dissembler
  1. cheat
  1. deceiver
  1. Tartuffe
  1. pecksniff
  1. pharisee

hypernyms (6)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cheat
  1. beguiler
  1. deceiver
  1. trickster
  1. slicker
  1. cheater

hyponyms (8)

Words that are more specific

  1. smoothy
  1. whited sepulchre
  1. smoothie
  1. whited sepulcher
  1. sweet talker
  1. tartufe
  1. charmer
  1. Tartuffe

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. impostor
  2. liar
  3. scoundrel
  4. villain
  1. knave
  2. traitor
  3. swindler
  4. charlatan
  1. sycophant
  2. tyrant
  3. ruffian
  4. thief
  1. humbug
  2. blackguard
  3. fanatic
  4. cad
  1. madman
  2. wretch
  3. fool
  4. quack
  1. vagabond
  2. drunkard
  3. schemer
  4. libertine

reverse dictionary (26)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bigot
  2. Tartuffe
  3. tartufe
  4. whited sepulcher
  5. ypocrite
  1. dissembler
  2. face
  3. dissemble
  4. hypocrisy
  5. hypocritical
  1. hypocritism
  2. mawworm
  3. papelard
  4. faitor
  5. ipocrisie
  1. pretender
  2. tartuffe
  3. phony
  4. slapeface
  5. canting
  1. detect
  2. expose
  3. hypocrite
  4. outside
  5. pharisee
  1. scorn

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  • bunnyip i like how much this word sounds like Hippocratic (Hippocratic Oath).
    it is not actually ironic, but i still find it amusing. Aug 20, 2009

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