Word Meanings - HYPOCRITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: HYPOCRITE

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. The hypocrite's hope shall perish. Job viii. 13. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. Shak. Syn. -- Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HYPOCRITE)

• Dissembler
• Feigner
• hypocrite
• disguiser
• suppressor
• concealer

Related words: (words related to HYPOCRITE)

• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DISSEMBLER
  One who dissembles; one who conceals his opinions or dispositions under a false appearance; a hypocrite. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers. Bacon. Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Pope. Syn. --
• HYPOCRITELY
  Hypocritically. Sylvester.
• FEIGNER
  One who feigns or pretends.
• CONCEALER
  One who conceals.
• DISGUISER
  1. One who, or that which, disguises. Shak. 2. One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. E. Hall.
• HYPOCRITE
  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.