tartuffe

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (7)  · 
“
"The sly _tartuffe_!

View all »
Definitions (2)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun A hypocrite, especially one who affects religious piety.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (3)

 

Tags

tartuffe hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 50 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the same contextWord Family

tartuffe:   Tartuffe
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. After the protagonist of Tartuffe, a play by Molière.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

erudition · lump · comprehended · ornament · wage-slave

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

cuddlefish · cuttlefish · mamaroneck · maladministration · antidisestablishmentarianism