Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of disguise
comparative more disguised · superlative most disguised
- obsoleteAltered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
- obsoleteusuallynamesServing as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.
under a disguised name
- obsoleteConcealed, hidden, out of sight.
- obsoleteActing inappropriately, badly behaved.
Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]
c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–231 more example
And thus the loselles stryves, And lewdely sayes by Chryst Agaynst the sely preest. […] They mought be better advysed Then to be so dysgysed.
1521–1522, John Skelton, Collyn Clout; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 261, lines 574–576, 579–580 - broadlyobsoleteslangDrunk.
He was never known to be disguised with liquor […].
1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC1 more example
The saylers and the shipmen all, / Through foul excesse of wine, / Were so disguised that at the sea / They shew'd themselves like swine.
c. 1600, Thomas Deloney, Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Spanish de incógnito
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Cite this entry
disguised. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disguised
“disguised.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disguised. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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