Synonyms of dissimulating

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adjective

as in assuming

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assuming
• dishonest
• dissembling
• insincere
• phony
• fake
• phoney
• artful
• artificial
• pretentious
• false
• wary
• cynical
• affected
• suspicious
• skeptical
• critical
• mistrustful
• guileful
• worldly
• sophisticated
• manipulative
• cosmopolitan
• deceptive
• deceitful
• cultivated
• hypocritical
• civilized
• scheming
• cunning
• cultured
• polished
• worldly-wise
• designing
• calculating
• devious
• shifty
• subtle
• crooked
• wily
• double-dealing
• sly
• underhanded
• refined
• crafty
• shrewd
• slick
• slippery
• tricky
• two-faced
• flattering
• feigned
• foxy
• knavish
• unctuous
• sycophantic
• smooth
• arch
• mealymouthed
• canny
• strained
• forced
• sharp

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• genuine
• sincere
• ingenuous
• true
• naive
• unaffected
• innocent
• honest
• naïve
• simple
• guileless
• artless
• natural
• unpretending
• unpretentious
• unsophisticated
• simpleminded
• inexperienced
• childlike
• malleable
• impressionable
• unworldly
• persuadable
• wide-eyed
• spontaneous
• unstudied
• unforced
• persuasible
• gee-whiz
• dewy-eyed

dissimulating

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verb

present participle of dissimulate

as in pretending

to take on a false or deceptive appearance

as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pretending
• dissembling
• posing
• acting
• making believe
• making a show
• letting on
• masquerading
• playing
• feigning
• putting on an act
• concealing
• simulating
• making out
• shamming
• putting up a front
• making a pretense
• playacting
• faking
• disguising
• camouflaging
• affecting
• impersonating
• professing
• masking
• counterfeiting
• assuming
• bluffing
• feinting
• putting on