Attire vs Disguise - What's the difference?
attire | disguise | Related terms |
One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
(heraldiccharge) The single horn of a deer or stag.
To dress or garb.
Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
(figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
* Macaulay
To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
(archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
* Spectator
As nouns the difference between attire and disguise
is that attire is one's dress; what one wears; one's clothes while disguise is attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.As verbs the difference between attire and disguise
is that attire is to dress or garb while disguise is to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.attire
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was wearing his formal attire .
Verb
- We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.
- He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.
Anagrams
* ----disguise
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
- ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
Synonyms
* camouflage * guise * mask * pretenseVerb
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship.
