Meanings
plural poseurs
- One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
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She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.
1884, Vernon Lee (pseudonym; Violet Paget), The Countess of Albany, published 1910, page 67I am a poseur and I don't care / I like to make people stare
1978, Poly Styrene, “I Am a Poseur”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray SpexSynonyms: poser, attitudinizer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna person who habitually pretends to be something they are not
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchposeur
- Frenchposeur
- Englishposeur
Borrowed from French poseur.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian позьор
- позьор (pozjor)one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Danish posør
- posørone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Dutch aansteller
- aanstellerone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
French poseur, poseuse
- poseurone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- poseuseone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- crâneurone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- crâneuseone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
German Angeber, Angeberin
- Angeberone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Angeberinone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Poserone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Poserinone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Poseurone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Poseurinone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Selbstdarstellerone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Möchtegernone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- Effekthascherone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Norwegian posør
- posørone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Polish pozer, pozerka
- pozerone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- pozerkaone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Russian позёр, позёрка
- позёр (pozjór)one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- позёрка (pozjórka)one who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Spanish posero, póser
- poseroone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- póserone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
- purapintaone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Swedish posör
- posörone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
Turkish pozör
- pozörone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others
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Cite this entry
poseur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poseur
“poseur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poseur. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “poseur,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poseur.
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