Word Meanings - IMPERSONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. 2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. 3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict

Additional info about word: IMPERSONATE

1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. 2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. 3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPERSONATE)

• Counterfeit Simulate
• misrepresent
• impersonate
• Simulate
• Feign
• counterfeit
• pretend
• assume

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPERSONATE)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to IMPERSONATE)

• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SIMULATE
  Feigned; pretended. Bale. (more info) akin to simul at the same time, together, similis like. See Similar,
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• FEIGNED
  Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false. "A feigned friend." Shak. Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. Ps. xvii. 1. -- Feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Feign"ed*ness, n. Her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned
• PRETENDED
  Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.
• PRETENDENCE
  The act of pretending; pretense. Daniel.
• UNMASK
  To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
• DETECTION
  The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot. Such secrets of guilt are never from detection. D. Webster.
• ASSUMED
  1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
• COUNTERFEITLY
  By forgery; falsely.
• PRETENDINGLY
  As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• FEIGNING
  That feigns; insincere; not genuine; false. -- Feign"ing*ly, adv.
• DETECTER
  One who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
• DISSIMULATE
  Feigning; simulating; pretending. Henryson.
• UNFEIGNED
  Not feigned; not counterfeit; not hypocritical; real; sincere; genuine; as, unfeigned piety; unfeigned love to man. "Good faith unfeigned." Chaucer. -- Un*feign"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*feign"ed*ness, n.