Word Meanings - SIMULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true. Syn. -- Counterfeiting; feint; pretense.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SIMULATION)
- Affectation
- Pretence
- artifice
- hypocrisy
- assumption
- simulation
- mannerism
- euphuism
- airs
- Excuse
- pretext
- fabrication
- cloak
- mask
- color
- show
- garb
- plea
- make believe
- outside show
- pretension
Related words: (words related to SIMULATION)
- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - EXCUSEMENT
Excuse. Gower. - ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - EXCUSE
1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him - HYPOCRISY
The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - EXCUSER
1. One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift. 2. One who excuses or forgives another. Shelton. - OUTSIDER
1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the - PRETEXTURE
A pretext. - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - COLOR
An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the - COLORIFIC
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - BELIEVE
To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard - COLORIMETER
An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid. - COLOR SERGEANT
See SERGEANT - BELIEVER
One who gives credit to the truth of the Scriptures, as a revelation from God; a Christian; -- in a more restricted sense, one who receives Christ as his Savior, and accepts the way of salvation unfolded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - ASSIMULATION
Assimilation. Bacon. - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - DISSIMULATION
The act of dissembling; a hiding under a false appearance; concealment by feigning; false pretension; hypocrisy. Let love be without dissimulation. Rom. xii. 9. Dissimulation . . . when a man lets fall signs and arguments that he is not that he - WATER-COLORIST
One who paints in water colors. - DECOLOR
To deprive of color; to bleach. - PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.