Impostor

Quick meaning: Impostor is a noun meaning Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

Meaning

Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.

More Meanings

1. (computer graphics) A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene to look like part of the 3D world.
2. (linguistics) A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.

Example Sentences

Interestingly, Wang shows that Chinese allows the appearance of an indexical pronoun alongside the imposter, as in (31).

One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.

“I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor. Calls himself a butler, does he? The police could shake that story. He's no more a butler than I am.”

"It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."

Word Forms

• impostors
• imposter
• impostour

Synonyms for impostor

Depending on context, synonyms include impersonator, sham, pretender, fraud, pseud, fake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imposter, faker, sham, fake, pretender, fraud.

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