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Disguised vs Undisguised - What's the difference?

disguised | undisguised |

As a verb disguised

is past tense of disguise.

As an adjective undisguised is

not disguised, plainly visible.

disguised

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disguise)

    • disguise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Attire (e.g. clothing, makeup) used to hide one's identity or assume another.
    • ''That cape and mask complete his disguise .
  • (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
  • The act of disguising, notably as a ploy
    • ''Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

    Synonyms

    * camouflage * guise * mask * pretense

    Verb

  • To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
    • Spies often disguise themselves.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bunyan was forced to disguise himself as a wagoner.
  • To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
    • He disguised his true intentions.
  • (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
  • * Spectator
    • 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.

    Synonyms

    * cloak * mask * hide

    Derived terms

    * disguisedly * disguisement * disguiser

    undisguised

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not disguised, plainly visible.
  • * 1854 , ,
    • The Major-General has already been made aware of the fact, that a large number of ill-disposed persons have, for some days, been openly organizing, drilling, and equipping themselves, with the undisguised object of attacking her Majesty's troops, and, if possible, subverting the Government.
  • * 1885 , , Volume 1: Abbadie - Anne,
    • The bal masqué was ‘a scene of undisguised indecency, drunkenness, and vice.’
  • * 1890s , , Book 4, Chapter 5,
    • So when they perceived the approach of Agesilaus, the Argives and their friends left the offerings as they lay, including the preparations for the breakfast, and retired with undisguised alarm into the city by the Cenchrean road.