IMPOSTOR meaning: Person pretending to be another

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word impostor:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

impostor: Merriam-Webster
impostor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
impostor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
impostor: Collins English Dictionary
impostor: Vocabulary.com
Impostor, impostor: Wordnik
impostor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
impostor: Wiktionary
impostor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
impostor (imposter): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
impostor: Infoplease Dictionary
impostor: Dictionary.com
impostor: Online Etymology Dictionary
impostor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Impostor (TV series), Impostor (disambiguation), Impostor (short story), Impostor, The Impostor (Banjo Concerto), The Impostor (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Impostor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
impostor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
impostor: Rhymezone
Impostor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
impostor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
impostor: FreeDictionary.org
impostor: Mnemonic Dictionary
impostor: TheFreeDictionary.com
impostor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

impostor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
impostor: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

Webopedia (No longer online)
Technopedia (No longer online)
impostor: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

impostor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
▸ noun:  (computer graphics) A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.

Opposite:

authentic, genuine, real

Types:

con artist, snake oil salesman, charlatan, quack, fraud, more...

Phrases:

impostor syndrome, supernova impostor, Military impostor, The Great Impostor, impostor is in marina beach eatery, more...

Adjectives:

great, mere, old, vile, impudent, arabian, notorious, religious, clever, young, famous

Colors:

red, black, gray, dark green, maroon, more...

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