personate

Speech parts

1. personate - Adjective

2. personate - Verb

Meaning

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.

To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

To personify; to typify; to describe.

To play or assume a character.

Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pose impersonate personify mime play act ape dramatize perform represent copy mirror discourse depict simulate
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Antonyms

real true actual protected differ valid
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Hypernyms

attribute assign betray deceive ascribe impute

Hyponyms

masquerade

Derivatives

personated personating

Anagrams

Esperanto

Examples

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who was not permitted to sing psalms through his nose in Europe, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience. Ambrose Bierce

She posed as the Czar's daughter Source: Internet

The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

personalness personalty personalzine personately personating personation