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hypocrite

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhɪ.pə.kɹɪt/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: flip-flopper, pretender, munafiq, bamboozler, bouncer, bullshitter, cheat, cheater, cogger, cony-catcher, crammer, deceiver, deceptor, fabricator, fabulist, falser, gabber, grifter, guiler, liar, losenger, mocker, pseudologist, rook, Scandaroon, shammer, Spanish athlete, swindler, swike, treacher, trickster, trucker, wernard

Antonyms: none provided

2

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

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, 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 Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ὑποκριτής (hupokritḗs, “actor, hypocrite”), from ὑποκρίνομαι (hupokrínomai, “to answer, act, feign”). Displaced native Old English līċettere.

Across languages

Translations

151 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: skynheilige — person practising hypocrisy
  • Afrikaans: huigelaar — person practising hypocrisy
  • Albanian: shtiak — person practising hypocrisy
  • Albanian: hipokrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Albanian: shtiracak — person practising hypocrisy
  • Arabic: مُرَاءٍ (murāʔin) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Arabic: مُنَافِق (munāfiq) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Arabic: مُنَافِق (munāfig) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Armenian: երեսպաշտ (erespašt) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Armenian: փարիսեցի (pʻarisecʻi) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Aromanian: ipucrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Aromanian: ipucritã — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: beatu — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: falsu — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: falseru — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: soñu — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: soñín — person practising hypocrisy
  • Asturian: camanduleru — person practising hypocrisy
  • Azerbaijani: riyakar — person practising hypocrisy
  • Azerbaijani: ikiüzlü — person practising hypocrisy
  • Basque: hipokrita — person practising hypocrisy
  • Basque: itxurati — person practising hypocrisy
  • Belarusian: крывадушнік (kryvadušnik) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Belarusian: крывадушніца (kryvadušnica) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Breton: pilpouz — person practising hypocrisy
  • Bulgarian: лицемер (licemer) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Catalan: hipòcritav — person practising hypocrisy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偽善者 /伪善者 (wěishànzhě) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 偽君子 /伪君子 (wěijūnzǐ) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鄉愿 (xiāngyuàn) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Ngazidja Comorian: mnafiki — person practising hypocrisy
  • Crimean Tatar: allâq — person practising hypocrisy
  • Crimean Tatar: munafıq — person practising hypocrisy
  • Czech: pokrytec — person practising hypocrisy
  • Czech: pokrytkyně — person practising hypocrisy
  • Danish: hykler — person practising hypocrisy
  • Dutch: huichelaar — person practising hypocrisy
  • Dutch: hypocriet — person practising hypocrisy
  • Dutch: schijnheilige — person practising hypocrisy
  • Esperanto: hipokritulo — person practising hypocrisy
  • Esperanto: fariseo — person practising hypocrisy
  • Esperanto: granda parolisto, malgranda faristo — person practising hypocrisy
  • Estonian: silmakirjatseja — person practising hypocrisy
  • Ewe: alakpatɔ — person practising hypocrisy
  • Finnish: tekopyhä — person practising hypocrisy
  • Finnish: hurskastelija — person practising hypocrisy
  • Finnish: ulkokultainen — person practising hypocrisy
  • French: hypocrite — person practising hypocrisy
  • French: pharisien — person practising hypocrisy
  • French: pharisienne — person practising hypocrisy
  • French: tartufe — person practising hypocrisy
  • French: tartuffe — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: moina — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: camanduleiro — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: sumelgo — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: macangón — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: gurita — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: talegueiro — person practising hypocrisy
  • Galician: santilorio — person practising hypocrisy
  • Georgian: ფარისეველი (pariseveli) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Georgian: თვალთმაქცი (tvaltmakci) — person practising hypocrisy
  • German: Heuchler — person practising hypocrisy
  • German: Heuchlerin — person practising hypocrisy
  • Greek: υποκριτής (ypokritís) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Greek: υποκρίτρια (ypokrítria) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Greek: φαρισαίος (farisaíos) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Greek: φαρισαία (farisaía) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Hebrew: צבוע \ צָבוּעַ (tsavúa) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Hindi: पाखंडी (pākhaṇḍī) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Hindi: ढोंगी (ḍhoṅgī) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Hungarian: képmutató — person practising hypocrisy
  • Hungarian: álszent — person practising hypocrisy
  • Icelandic: hræsnari — person practising hypocrisy
  • Indonesian: munafik — person practising hypocrisy
  • Irish: fimíneach — person practising hypocrisy
  • Italian: ipocrita — person practising hypocrisy
  • Italian: collotorto — person practising hypocrisy
  • Japanese: 偽善者 (gizensha) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Japanese: 偽君子 (gikunshi) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Korean: 위선자 (wiseonja) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Central Kurdish: دووڕوو (dûrrû) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Northern Kurdish: durû — person practising hypocrisy
  • Latgalian: bliednīks — person practising hypocrisy
  • Latgalian: vaigmejiejs — person practising hypocrisy
  • Latgalian: labieds — person practising hypocrisy
  • Latvian: liekulis — person practising hypocrisy
  • Latvian: divkosis — person practising hypocrisy
  • Lithuanian: veidmainys — person practising hypocrisy
  • Lithuanian: apsimetėlis — person practising hypocrisy
  • Macedonian: лицеме́р (licemér) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Macedonian: лицеме́рка (licemérka) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Macedonian: дволичник (dvoličnik) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Malay: munafik — person practising hypocrisy
  • Malay: hipokrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Malay: purasetia — person practising hypocrisy
  • Mauritian Creole: ipokrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hykler — person practising hypocrisy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hyklar — person practising hypocrisy
  • Old English: līċettere — person practising hypocrisy
  • Persian: منافق (monâfeq) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Polish: hipokryta — person practising hypocrisy
  • Polish: hipokrytka — person practising hypocrisy
  • Portuguese: hipócrita — person practising hypocrisy
  • Romanian: ipocrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Romanian: ipocrită — person practising hypocrisy
  • Russian: ханжа́ (xanžá) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Russian: лицеме́р (licemér) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Scots: gar-me-trou — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: лицемер — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: лицемерка — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: дволичник — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: дволичњак — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: дволичњакиња — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: химбеник — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: хипокрит — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: licemer — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: licemerka — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvoličnik — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvoličnjak — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvoličnjakinja — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: himbenik — person practising hypocrisy
  • Serbo-Croatian: hipokrit — person practising hypocrisy
  • Slovak: pokrytec — person practising hypocrisy
  • Slovene: hinavec — person practising hypocrisy
  • Slovene: hinavka — person practising hypocrisy
  • Spanish: hipócrita — person practising hypocrisy
  • Sranan Tongo: hoigriman — person practising hypocrisy
  • Swedish: hycklare — person practising hypocrisy
  • Swedish: skrymtare — person practising hypocrisy
  • Tagalog: balubalo — person practising hypocrisy
  • Tagalog: talipandas — person practising hypocrisy
  • Telugu: కపటి (kapaṭi) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Thai: ผู้หลอกลวง (pôo-lòk-luang) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Thai: คนหน้าซื่อใจคด — person practising hypocrisy
  • Thai: คนมือถือสากปากถือศีล — person practising hypocrisy
  • Thai: คนหน้าไหว้หลังหลอก — person practising hypocrisy
  • Thai: คนเสแสร้ง — person practising hypocrisy
  • Turkish: ikiyüzlü — person practising hypocrisy
  • Turkish: riyakar — person practising hypocrisy
  • Turkish: münafık — person practising hypocrisy
  • Ukrainian: ханжа (xanža) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Ukrainian: лицемір (lycemir) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Urdu: منافق (munāfiq) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Vietnamese: kẻ đạo đức giả — person practising hypocrisy
  • Vietnamese: kẻ giả nhân giả nghĩa — person practising hypocrisy
  • Vietnamese: kẻ giả hình — person practising hypocrisy
  • Welsh: rhagrithiwr — person practising hypocrisy
  • Welsh: rhagrithwraig — person practising hypocrisy
  • Yiddish: צדיק אין פּעלץ — person practising hypocrisy
  • Yiddish: היפּאָקריט (hipokrit) — person practising hypocrisy
  • Yiddish: צבֿועק (tsvuak) — person practising hypocrisy