Incognito vs Disguised - What's the difference?
incognito | disguised |
without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title.
* 1891 , Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia :
Without revealing one's identity.
One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
(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 an adjective incognito
is without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title.As an adverb incognito
is without revealing one's identity.As a noun incognito
is one unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.As a verb disguised is
past tense of disguise.incognito
English
Adjective
(-)- "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, “you can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you.”
Usage notes
This term is said especially of great personages who sometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoid notice.Quotations
* 'Twas long ago/Since gods come down incognito. —Prior. * The prince royal of Persia came thither incognito. —Tatler.Adverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* His incognito was endangered. —.Anagrams
* ----disguised
English
Verb
(head)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.