noun
Meaning 1
One who dissimulates.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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dissimulator
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noun
Meaning 2
a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hypocrite, dissembler, phony, phoney, pretender
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
Narrower terms: smoothie, smoothy, sweet talker, charmer, Tartuffe, Tartufe, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre
History
Etymology
From Latin dissimulātor, from dissimulāre (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to dissimulate + -or.