disguised

dis·guised
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UK/dɪsˈɡaɪzd/UK/dɪzˈɡaɪzd/US/dɪˈskaɪzd/

adjective

Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of disguise
adjectivedisguised (comparative more disguised, superlative most disguised)

comparative more disguised · superlative most disguised

  1. Wearing a disguise; dressed in strange or unusual clothes, or taking on a changed appearance, especially to conceal one’s identity.
  2. Made to appear as something other than it is, hidden in outward form.
  3. obsoleteAltered for the sake of fashion; newfangled or showy.
  4. obsoleteusuallynamesServing as a disguise; altered for the sake of concealing one’s identity.

    under a disguised name

  5. obsoleteConcealed, hidden, out of sight.
  6. 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 20–23
    1 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
  7. 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, […], →OCLC
    1 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
  • de incógnitoTranslations
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APA

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Chicago

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