Disguised
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪsˈɡaɪzd/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Disguised is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of disguise.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of disguise.
More Meanings
- Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
- (of things) Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
- (obsolete, of dress) Altered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
- (obsolete, of dress, names, etc.) Serving as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
- (obsolete) Concealed, hidden, out of sight.
- (obsolete) Acting inappropriately, badly behaved.
- (slang, obsolete, by extension) Drunk.
Example Sentences
under a disguised name
He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].
Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]
The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine.
Synonyms for disguised
Depending on context, synonyms include veiled, cloaked, masked, covert.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include covert, veiled, masked, cloaked, fraudulent, stealth.
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