Imposter vs Disguise - What's the difference?
imposter | disguise |
Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise.
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 imposter and disguise
is that imposter is someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity or other devious disguise while disguise is attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.As a verb disguise is
to change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.imposter
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Alternative forms
* impostorNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
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*disguise
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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.